Handmaids Tale-Struggle for Identity

Dystopian future
1. Infertility
  1. Caused by radiation poisoning
Lack of womens rights
1. 'Walking wombs'
2. Treated as the Commanders property
  1. The Ceremony-Fertilisation of the Handmaids by the Commanders
    1. Handmaids have no choice. Essentially rape
      1. The Handmaids are held down by the Commanders wives
  2. The males of Gilead have all the power
    1. Run the state-they are the only people who are still being educated
      1. Information=power
        'I would like to know what's going on'
3. Women are soley for breeding
  1. 'The womb is all that matters'
Hierarchy of females
1. Commanders Wives
  1. Aunts
    1. Handmaids
      1. Unwomen (infertile)
2. Colours
  1. Blue
    1. Yellow/orange
      1. Red
        Brown
        Red wings on the sides of their head
        Unable to look around/be seen
        Trapped within themselves-unable to talk to one another
    2. Akin to the Virgin Mary
If women cannot breed/refuse to, they are taken to the Toxic remains of Gilead to die
Margret Atwood
1. 1980's America
  1. Held a lot of controvosy

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