How does sexuality a woman's way to be free in the Handmaid's tale? Humans are sexual beings. When we are born, we are affected by a sexual life.

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The handmaid’s tale

How does sexuality a woman’s way to be free in the Handmaid’s tale?

Humans are sexual beings. When we are born, we are affected by a sexual life. According to psychology, since we are born, we start to explore our body. When we are three years old, during our anal stage of sexual development, we start to discover our body. This is the stage in which we start to feel independent. By being social, the most things we are concerned are related to our sexual life. All our thoughts are occupied in how to use our body to reach something. To take advantage of someone. This makes us fill free. Because we own our body. And we can use it however we want to, whether it is to manipulate someone, or to kill it, in order to show that you own something, and that no regime, no one can make you feel totally possessed, because, at the end you will always own something: your body. Your sexuality. Your freedom.

I believe that the author in the Handmaid’s tale, places a theory, in which women seem to be totally degraded, but are in fact the main power. Because as the most important thing in the regime is to procreate, women are the ones who give birth, so I believe that it is through their body, how they control the society. And it is their sexuality their way to feel free, as they own their thoughts, and their feelings.

Existentialists, state that human beings are able to define and determine their own life. You do this through your thoughts, and therefore through your actions. For example, by writing “faith” in the coushins, or witing “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”. People are accustumed to face problems. Sometimes these problems increment. What defines you is how you use your reazon to overcome these situations. Whether it is to sit and wait for a revolution to come, and save you. Or start the revolution yourself. Of course, as Van Gogh would say “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together”. Offred is a revolutionary, as she is an artist, and artists “Talk when there should be silence”, we can say this, when we see in Chapter one, where we are presented women names, in a place where there should be neither communication nor names, because names, are personal, are your way of identification. When Offred says names, they are suppressing all identity, so stating that they know each others names, states that they are unique, and individuals.

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Aunt Lydia, says that there are different types of freedom; “there is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t you underrate it.” I believe that although being able to run your money and your business, is a more obvious kind of freedom, being able to remember and fraternize with people is a more regarding one. Because when you take things for granted, as it is freedom to, the emotional reward is not as fulfilling. When you feel the touch ...

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