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Extremists takes matters into their own hands in Margaret Arwood's "The handmaids tale"
Title: Extremists takes matters into their own hands in Margaret Arwood's "The handmaids tale"
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1500 | Pages: 6.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Extremists takes matters into their own hands in Margaret Arwood's "The handmaids tale"
In Margaret Atwoods novel, 'The Handmaids Tale', the birth rate in the United States had dropped so low that extremists decided to take matters into their own hands by killing off the government, taking over themselves, and reducing the womens role in society to that of a silent birthing machine. One handmaid describes what happened and how it came about as she, too, is forced to comply with the new order.
Before the new order, …showed first 75 words of 1500 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1500 total…to obtain control over society, because society was ready for a change. People were sick of living in fear and afraid for their future. The Sons changed this by dominating the women by giving them strict rules to follow and reducing their role in life to that of giving life. However, they also attempt to suppress the need to touch, which will be their undoing.
Works Cited
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaids Tale. Toronto: McClelland-Bantam, Inc., 1985.
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