Handmaids Tale
The nature of Offred’s lost identity is very drastic. Before the new religious group of Gilead took over the world she was a very normal every day woman. She did what was expected of her time and continued to do so after the take over. She had a husband and a daughter who she loved very much. But the new society which she lives in love is not permitted. " If I thought that this would happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from. There’s nobody here I can love, all the people I could love are dead or elsewhere" . Offred also had the choice of free will before her civilization changed. But then slowly women began to lose all of their rights and were no longer allowed to have jobs or even to use money, "Sorry, he said. This number is not valid." "That’s ridiculous, I said. It must be, I’ve got thousands in my account." "It’s not valid, he repeated obstinately. See that red light? Means it’s not valid,"(p.164). "In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from" (p.24). Social class was not a racial matter before the take over; and each individual was treated equally. However, slowly people of high social g
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Approximate Word count = 1089
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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