The Handmaid's Tale As A Feminist Analysis

Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, can be described as a feminist novel. I think that reading this novel from a feminist perspective is the easiest way to analyze the text in this novel. While doing some research, Dictionary.com, states that the word feminism mean, “the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other tights of women to those of men.” In this particular novel, the wives and Handmaids pretty much serve the men. While conducting my research in this novel, I also sensed a slight form of Totalitarianism. According to Vocabulary.com, Totalitarianism is, “a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution, law, or opposition etc.) In the Handmaid’s Tale, the reader can clearly see that due to the amount of power the commander has in

Since Margaret’s studied bugs, this mean that she spent months at a time in the woods. While her dad was working, all she could do was imagine things to keep herself entertained. I believe that Gilead was all dreamt up by Atwood. I also feel as if that she placed Gilead in America because usually changes start there. While reading the Handmaid’s Tale, I feel as if that Gilead is a city that is based around maltreatment. In the beginning of the book, I can feel the discomfort fear from the occupants in the gymnasium that was described to the readers.
To better fathom the discomfort that Offred and the other women experienced in this book, it is important to primarily understand the different characters based on the gender of Gilead. I feel that the purpose of Gilead is to mainly make women inferior to men. Though the story took place in the future, we can look at this story as if I happened in the past. Before the women had the right to vote, if one thinks, it is much like this novel. Women were not allowed to be in charge of anything, women, back then, kind of have the same role as they do now in the Handmaid’s