IOP Outline
Introduction-
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Published in 1985
• BACKGROUND INFO ABOUT ATWOOD
• Breif summary: The Handmaid’s tale took place in the city of Gilead. In Gilead, people were ranked and everything was controlled. Women could be either Handmaids, Wives, Aunts, or Marthas to be considered in the “higher” society. Men had much more power than women but they were still limited in what they could do. They could be Commanders, Eyes, or Angels. This novel opens with the main character, Offred, a handmaid, in the Red Center where she is brainwashed by the Aunts. The novel is written from Offred’s point of view. Her thoughts jumble the chronology of the book making the reader lear a little bit at a time about Gilead and the past society. As the plot continues, the reader discovers that most in the society are disconent about their position they hold and they break the rules
Thesis/Theme
• From the Commander to the Handmaid, the reader discoveres that although people may percieve the government the same way, the power they hold in the society affects their actions towards it.
• In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood shows that the power one has in a society directly correlates to how they view the society and the government.
Scrabble Game
• A game of scrabble is fair. This is what a society is supposed to be like. However


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One with greater power perceives a society differently than one with less. However, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood shows that many will settle in a corrupt society when given little, insignificant power. This power derives from breaking rules or simply having a choice or control of little aspects of life. Atwood uses characters to symbolize the people that will continue to fight and the people that are naive have no care. This novel shows Atwood’s feminist beliefs and the fact that people need to stand up for their rights and change instead of compromising for little things.


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