The role of Women in "The Handmaid's Tale"

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In the Handmaid's Tale, men are dominant in Gilead society, playing a superior role in it, meanwhile, women are not allowed to have a voice or opinion. The women of this society have to demonstrate complacency and passivity because they are inferior to everyone in society, especially the men. The lack of the handmaid´s voice is linked to their existence depending only on their fertility. They lose all their possessions, memories, families, etc. They do not even have a name, being named according to the names of their commanders.  “ This attitude of complacency is evident when Offred explains, Aunt Lydia said it was best not to speak unless they asked you a direct question. Try to think of it from their point of view, she said, her hands clasped and wrung together her nervous pleading smile”.  - Aunt Lydia  This extract demonstrates how women should not speak unless people in charge of Gilead society give them the right to do so. The idea of having Aunts to force the rules...