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Student Essay on The Handmaid's Tale: Changes in Offred's Life

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Margaret Atwood
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The Handmaid's Tale: Changes in Offred's Life

Summary:   Analyzes, The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Makes a detailed comparison of the changes in Offred's life before and after the coup - includes physical, political, social and psychological assessments.


The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel in which a small part of America is subject to a religious coup. The life of the main character, Offred is greatly altered by this new society. Before the takeover she lived in relative freedom with her husband Luke and daughter in their apartment in Massachusetts. After the coup she is put into physical and mental isolation from her loved ones and forced to conform to the rules of this new totalitarian society where there is no freedom for individuality or and personal choice.

This new society has physically isolated the handmaids from all the people they love. After trying to run away Offred was taken from her husband, daughter, mother and friends. In the red center she is also isolated from the people around her. The girls are.....

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