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The Republic of Gilead leads an inhumane society filled with hierarchies and misogynistic attitudes. Gilead takes these ideals to the extreme, stripping women of their rights.

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The daily manner of living for the handmaid looks like a future where women are rendered of their fertility, basic human rights and decency. The speaker uses the word "Forbidden" when talking about names. Women are stripped of their names and given random names that has no worth.

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Women are forced into six different groups. Our main character Offred is a Handmaid. A Handmaid's duty is to bear children for old powerful couples who cannot have children of their own. Dressed in ankle-long red dresses and wings around their faces, their purpose is to not see or be seen. The Handmaid's are objectified by men but hated by other woman.

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The Handmaid's tale shows that religion can be used as an excuse to reduce women's rights, which is a tendency that continues across the world, such as the rights to abortions and contraceptives.

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Being placed into a social setting of strict rules and regulations such as Gilead can cause the individual to follow along blindly and unconsciously. We see that these ideas become internalized in Offred when she compared herself to a dog bone, an object.

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I believe Atwood wanted to provide an outlook into a world we would never think could happen to us, but still have the possibility to develop. This novel argues that the legal control of women's reproductive freedom is and will always be politically and morally wrong.

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Everything the Handmaids do is structured; the times they are allowed to leave the house, the time they must bathe and what family will own them next. This goes to further prove how controlled and contained their forced way of life is.

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i think women arent as weak but i also believe anything could happen 

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i think women arent as weak but i also believe anything could happen 

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Women are definitely a stronger image now that they were when the book was written