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Ignorance In 'The Handmaid's Tale'

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Don't you hate it when someone tries to help you out, but instead they make things worse. In Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, we learn about the relationship between the Commander and Offred and how even though they live in the same house the Commander believes that Offred’s life is much better than what it actually is. The different relationships and events that occur in the novel shows that ignorance really is bliss and that ignorance can cause separation between social classes and genders. Gender roles and social classes lead to ignorance as shown in the relationship between the novel’s characters, the Commander and Offred.
In the novel the Commander attitude towards characters like Offred demonstrates that he is unfamiliar
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