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Themes from Handmaid
Title: Themes from Handmaid
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 1186 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Themes from Handmaid
Themes
Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.
Women's Bodies as Political Instruments - Because Gilead was formed in response to the crisis caused by dramatically decreased birthrates, the state's entire structure, with its religious trappings and rigid political hierarchy, is built around a single goal: control of reproduction. The state tackles the problem head-on by assuming complete control of women's bodies through their political subjugation. Women cannot vote, hold …showed first 75 words of 1186 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1186 total…order to accomplish this goal. Offred recalls a scene in which her mother and other feminists burn porn magazines. Like the founders of Gilead, these feminists ban some expressions of sexuality. Gilead also uses the feminist rhetoric of female solidarity and “sisterhood” to its own advantage. These points of similarity imply the existence of a dark side of feminist rhetoric. Despite Atwood's gentle criticism of the feminist left, her real target is the religious right.
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