Handmaids Tale- Topic B
Offreds Mother.
She is an extremely feminist figure in the time before the now present society was created. She advocated full equality in women, and managed to get women the right yo get abortions, have jobs, and stay independent. She acted out in various ways to promote her ideas:
"They must have poured gasoline, because the flames shot high, and then they began dumping the magazines, from boxes, not too many at a time" (Atwood 48). In this passage, Offred describes her mother burning pornographic magazines as a response to the degradation of women. Eventually we do not know what becomes of Offred's mother, but we know she was involved in a power struggle between women and the rest of society. Her resistance in unsuccesful, because even with all rebellions, Gilead was still constructed. Atwood seems to be saying that even if women had took charge, there was no use resisting the dictatorial government.
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