Oppression of Women in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

  • Ms. N. Raveena

Abstract

The Handmaids Tale is a story where womens rights have been revoked, and thus women are back in gender rolein use to the tremendous, through no rights, no opinions, and no cosmetics or beauty yield of any kind.On one occasionsovereign woman betwisted into anthing, a vessel whose individualidea is to abidekids to keep the residents. It is a dystopian nightmare which subjugates and subdues women to the point of sexual slavery, language impacts and indoctrinates them in a sensitivelyharmfulstyle, and denies them the fundamental freedoms which mainly women in Westernculture take for fixed. The aim of this paper is to talk about about the struggle of women and the issues related to female predicament, their obedience to men in the novels. It will draw a final picture of womens struggle for liberty. It has been asserted that woman's uniqueness is pushed away and still erased in the patriarchal social arrangement of unreal states.

 Keywords: Female Difficulties, Timidity, Domination, Independence.

Published
2019-11-26
Section
Articles