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The Role Of Women In The Handmaid's Tale

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The society of lower class women in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood may not be fictional. With a community where social respect and power is based on luck, through status and fertility. Men are lucky enough to be born with a silver spoon in their mouths or at least more that the what women would receive. They have the power to change rules of society without democracy. Offred, the main character in this novel is told her new world she has 'freedom from, rather than freedom to '. This society where women like Offred are forced to adapt this so call society, is Gilad. Supposedly a fictional society, it filled with dominating white men and enslaves white women that are fertile to become surrogates. Unfortunately, this life style hand out as many choices as a poor woman in the modern day receive, barely any. Many agree to this view of the Gilad, especially a feminist and a mother of three. She goes by the name ‘Glosswitch’ her stumble upon Justin Humphry an anti-choice republican calling pregnant women by the name ‘host’, which gave her an uncanny resemblance to Atwood choices of words. This new realisation on Gilad has brought her to write a critical piece on the modern society and Atwood’s novel, the Handmaid’s Tale has already come true – just not for white western women. This title already shows the path and point she is making. ‘The handmaid’s tale has already come true’ however many don’t live these lives, most don’t know the little choices socially
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