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The Handmaid's Tongue By Margaret Atwood

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Regarding feminist dystopia, Margaret Atwood is one of the first writers that come to mind. She is the writer of The Handmaid's tale, a dystopian novel. In general, the book covers women who are trying to survive the new patriarchal social order. The book was written by Canadian novelist Atwood in 1985. It is dystopian literature that describes the secluded living order in the Republic of Gilead, which has a caste system where fertile and healthy women are made into continuous production and allocated to high-level families who are unable to have children. The narrative is told to the reader in Offred, a Handmaid's Tongue. The book's flashbacks show how the "normal" existence that existed before a revolution altered Gilead and how this coup …show more content…

The new administration keeps him apart from his wife and child as they wait for this emergency to end. She is chosen as the stud girl at the sovereign's suggestion. The stud girls were required to wear a uniform dress resembling the red nun's clothing because of the rigid job classifications in the system. They were given white winged caps to wear on their heads, preventing them from seeing what was happening around them and allowing others to view them. The females, whose daily routines are governed by charts, are only permitted to leave the compound at specific times with guards to attend to the kitchen's demands. The homes where the handmaids resided with the families of the individuals, they served were called places of duty. The girls were only permitted to use sanctioned, constrained, and mechanical words while speaking among themselves. The system has designated surveillance systems as being like God's eyes to give citizens the impression that they are under constant watch. The connections between the eye, monitoring, and surveillance are alarmingly and obliquely brought up regularly. For instance, it is not permitted to read or write …show more content…

Future layout plans could be conceptualized in terms of two poles. As a result, paradise is on one side, and dystopia is on the other. While dystopias create a bleak and foreboding backdrop, utopias make for excellent future fiction. Both are tied to reality, even though they have an illusory quality. There has always been a connection between utopia's idealistic visions and dystopia's pessimistic dread. The study focuses on dystopian narratives, which point out the problems with the current societal structure and propose solutions to fix them. These are seen as cautionary signs outlining the potential harm if left in place. however, dystopias are a male-dominated genre, and as a result, they have a masculine point of view, which should not be overlooked. The end-of-the-century genre known as a feminist dystopia, which women writers created, emphasizes women while criticizing the system that males dominate. This study acknowledges feminist dystopia stories as allegories of the conservative reality of the existing male-dominated society and rejects the idea that they are paranoid forecasts about the

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