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Loss Of Identity In The Handmaid's Tale

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This piece is called Loss of Identity, created with watercolor and colored pencil. Complementing the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale”, by Margaret Atwood, Loss of Identity focuses on one of the major themes of the dystopian world that Atwood displays through the Republic of Gilead: a loss of one’s self-image and past life. When the government in the United States is overthrown by the future founders of Gilead, they have in mind a new order in which traditional gender roles triumph in society once again. However, such a societal change quickly begins to reveal a loss of civil liberties and rights that women had fought so hard to receive. By the new laws of Gilead, women are no longer allowed to possess any form of wealth and are no longer allowed
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