View Into Women’s Opression: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood takes place in the dystopian society of Gilead. Offred the story’s narrator lives in Gilead and was taken against her will to become an Handmaid. The woman in Gilead have lost their freedom and are succumbed to the strict orders of Gilead. In The Handmaid’s Tale, the class divisions between woman, and the use of first person point of view reveal that in today’s society
