Character Analysis: The Handmaid's Tale
Jenifer Montemayor English 1101 10 November 2015 First Draft While reading The Handmaids Tale, there were certain points that were brought to my attention. The main character in the novel was named Offred. Offred went through a really bumpy road throughout this novel. She had to do things that she had no say in doing. She was forced into becoming a handmaid. Margaret Atwood, the writer of The Handmaids Tale really focused on how the females in The Handmaids Tale were being sexual mistreated and abused. Not only was the mistreatment physical, but also mentally. It affected Offred throughout the novel. The Commander, was an important man in the novel. Offred had to have sex with the Commander and have a baby with him,
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They would have certain surveillance for the people in Gilead and especially the handmaids. Gilead would provide surveillance called the Guardians and the Eye. The Guardians were police force that Gilead would use .As it says in the article Just a Backlash': Margaret Atwood, Feminism, and "The Handmaid's Tale.", “Her Gileadean government maintains its power by means of surveillance, suppression of information, 're-education' centres, and totalitarian violence” (Neuman 1). The type of government Gilead had wanted power towards these people and especially the women. They allowed to act in a violent act. The also had a secret police organizations called The Eye. The article Sexual surveillance and medical authority in two versions of The handmaid's tale, “In their ominous black vans, marked with the insignia of the winged eye, these official spies embody the "faceless gaze" of bureaucratic surveillance, transforming "the whole social body into a field of perception: thousands of eyes posted everywhere, mobile attentions ever on the alert" (Foucault, Discipline 214). These black vans would appear in rare occasions. No one really knew where the black vans would take the women that they took. No one knew if they lived or if anything life threatening had happened to these handmaids. The black vans would take a handmaid and they would never again be heard of
They would have certain surveillance for the people in Gilead and especially the handmaids. Gilead would provide surveillance called the Guardians and the Eye. The Guardians were police force that Gilead would use .As it says in the article Just a Backlash': Margaret Atwood, Feminism, and "The Handmaid's Tale.", “Her Gileadean government maintains its power by means of surveillance, suppression of information, 're-education' centres, and totalitarian violence” (Neuman 1). The type of government Gilead had wanted power towards these people and especially the women. They allowed to act in a violent act. The also had a secret police organizations called The Eye. The article Sexual surveillance and medical authority in two versions of The handmaid's tale, “In their ominous black vans, marked with the insignia of the winged eye, these official spies embody the "faceless gaze" of bureaucratic surveillance, transforming "the whole social body into a field of perception: thousands of eyes posted everywhere, mobile attentions ever on the alert" (Foucault, Discipline 214). These black vans would appear in rare occasions. No one really knew where the black vans would take the women that they took. No one knew if they lived or if anything life threatening had happened to these handmaids. The black vans would take a handmaid and they would never again be heard of