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For those who find the novel and the concept behind it interesting and want to know more about The Handmaid's Tale, we suggest some great pages where you can find from analysis of the novel to general information to series based on the novel:









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Symbolism in The Handmaid's Tale

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 The novel is full of symbolism, from the place where the plot takes place to the clothes worn by the characters. Atwood gives much attention to the symbolism in the novel as it gives more depth to the meaning of the story and at the same time it is the symbolism that makes the reader understand that this novel is a protest and a criticism of the patriarchal society. Margaret takes historical elements and visual symbolism such as symbols, logos, or colors for it. As the novel covers a great variety of symbolism, here we will mention some of them, the most relevant ones like the setting, Harvard , colors, etc The setting: Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The place where the events take place is not explicitly specified in the novel but the author puts at our disposal a number of clues that indicate that the center of power of Gilead is located in the current city of Cambridge . If we go back in history, cities like Cambridge, Boston, and Washington were Puritan settlements. These thr...
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Women´s Voice 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...
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Margaret Atwood and what does this novel mean to her

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In the American newspaper New York Times, there is an article by Margaret Atwood. There she discussed the meaning of her work "The Handmaid's Tale".   The setting of the novel is Gilead that was influenced by Puritan society of the 17th-century . Also, it becomes a foundation of now-day America. Atwood discussed the feminist topic in this article and answered the main reader's questions. The most typical question that Atwood was asked was if she considered her novel feminist. The answer that she gave in the article is that women as all human beings have different characters and behaviors so we can find female protagonists as angels and on the other hand as victimized. Female protagonists play an important role in "The Handmaid's Tale". They are central characters. "Why interesting and important? Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are not secondary players in human destiny, and every...
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