The Handmaid’s Tale Analysis

The Handmaid’s Tale seems to have two main characters that are able to hold its reader’s interest: Offred and the system (Gilead). The description of the surroundings is thought-provoking and no less vivid than heroin’s introspections. If the identification with Offred and the interest in her fate declines (which depends…

Of particular interest with regards to the narrative style employed in The Handmaid’s Tale, is that of the style in which Offred narrates the story.  Although the style employs many elements that a brief two-page response would be likely to overlook, perhaps the most important of these is the unique…

A language is a tool of power in any society. In current society, new words like ‘tweeting’, ‘Googling’, and ‘Facebooking’ reflect the new social trends on the Internet. Like today’s society words, Margaret Atwood used words as tools of power in her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. The new society of…