Illya Gryn

                                The Handmaid's Tale

        In a book by Margaret Atwood “The Handmaid's Tale” we see the Republic of Gilead. It is a country, in not far future, where extremely right handed religious party takes control of the United States of America and establishes a dictatorship. In Gilead many woman are infertile, because of radiation and pollution. The few fertile women remained are trained to be handmaids, who just born babies for upper-class. Upper-class in Gilead are Commanders – the ruling centre of dictatorship, and their Wives – top social level for women. Republic of Gilead is a military state, so men are divided in to Angels – high military and Guardians – low military. Women in this society should only be Housewives, so they cant work. The rest of women divided on Marthas – servants, and Unwomen – these are women who made something wrong or immoral from the point of view of the government of Gilead. First of all the target of this regime was to return people to the initial values – family and faith. We can see, that the government controls everything in a country, the way people live, the way people dress, the way they behave, so they just take off people's freedom, but throughout  a book we see the gaps in a system of Gilead, in which people's emotions, thoughts and desires become possible.

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        The narrator of this book is Offred. She is a Handmaid in a family of Commander, whose name is Fred. Throughout all the book the book we see her emotions, thoughts and memories, which are described very carefully.  Her thoughts divided on two parts, first is her life before Revolution. In her memories we see a middle class American family with a small daughter. Second part of her memories is present, where there are only sadness and hope for the better life. First she doesn't know what to do she just lives according to the rules and thinks that everyone ...

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