Handmaids Tale Analysis
In a messed up world where gender inequality plays a role there is a women named Offred.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. Due to the fact that in this time not a lot of
women could have babies, Handmaids were the ones who had to reproduce babies. In this story
women were divided into categories. There were the Handmaids which were the young ones and
The Marthas, which were the cooks and they were the old ones and they couldn’t have babies.
Both groups wore a certain color representing them. The Handmaid’s wear red and the Marthas
wear green. The wives wear blue. These women worked in the commander’s home. These
women had very little freedom and were forbidden to do almost everything. In this novel
Atwood uses a type …show more content…
Atwood
uses these words so the readers can understand the themes, representations of power, identity and
what the women were feeling. It’s basically a guide for us readers. Atwood also uses this
language to illustrate the control of women. In Gilead they lower women’s importance by their
gender as wives, Handmaids, Econowives or Marthas. Gilead sucks the freedom out of these
women and they take away the fact that they can just be women and just leaves them thinking
they’re just factories, just reproducing babies. It makes them think that’s all their good for. The
fact that they take away women being allowed to get girly and dress up is sad. “The smell of nail
polish has made me hungry.” This was said by offred in chapter 5. This was one of my favorite
scenes, this was where Ofglen and Offred seen Japanese tourist after they had just gone food
shopping. Offred was looking at a woman’s toes and the women’s toes were painted pink.
Ofglen and Offred were so fascinated. Offred said she can feel the women’s shoes on her own
feet. Offred is hungry for freedom. She misses what she use to have. She isn’t allowed to wear
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. Due to the fact that in this time not a lot of
women could have babies, Handmaids were the ones who had to reproduce babies. In this story
women were divided into categories. There were the Handmaids which were the young ones and
The Marthas, which were the cooks and they were the old ones and they couldn’t have babies.
Both groups wore a certain color representing them. The Handmaid’s wear red and the Marthas
wear green. The wives wear blue. These women worked in the commander’s home. These
women had very little freedom and were forbidden to do almost everything. In this novel
Atwood uses a type …show more content…
Atwood
uses these words so the readers can understand the themes, representations of power, identity and
what the women were feeling. It’s basically a guide for us readers. Atwood also uses this
language to illustrate the control of women. In Gilead they lower women’s importance by their
gender as wives, Handmaids, Econowives or Marthas. Gilead sucks the freedom out of these
women and they take away the fact that they can just be women and just leaves them thinking
they’re just factories, just reproducing babies. It makes them think that’s all their good for. The
fact that they take away women being allowed to get girly and dress up is sad. “The smell of nail
polish has made me hungry.” This was said by offred in chapter 5. This was one of my favorite
scenes, this was where Ofglen and Offred seen Japanese tourist after they had just gone food
shopping. Offred was looking at a woman’s toes and the women’s toes were painted pink.
Ofglen and Offred were so fascinated. Offred said she can feel the women’s shoes on her own
feet. Offred is hungry for freedom. She misses what she use to have. She isn’t allowed to wear