Margaret Atwood's novel
The Handmaid's Tale is a different kind of reading, it's a reading that takes you into deep description of women that really have no voice, no face, no individualism other than they are in two different categories; the Martha's and the Handmaids. It's another reading of oppression because these women have no rights at all. It's all dependent upon which category they can best fit into. What I got from the reading so far is the Handmaids, Offred's duty is sexual and has to do with her reproducing. In the early chapters Cora comments that she could have done Offred's job if she hadn't gotten her tubes tied.
The different categories that the characters fall into are the handmaids, the Commanders, the Angels are the guards, and the servants are the Marthas. And very importantly these women are not to associate with one another or there would be consequences.
The women of the lowest group are categorized by having to wear the color red and they are seen as the lowest group there is. Even the Marthas felt superior to the women in "red." These women are face with an isolated life, an oppressed life.
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