Explore the issues concerning women and feminism raised in A Handmaids Tale paying particular attention to
The Handmaids’ Tale is a dystopian novel written from a feminists view. Gilead is an imperfect, misogynistic society in which women have no identity, yet ironically they are a necessity. In Gilead, women are categorised. ... These women wear light blue and if they cannot bear children then they have Handmaids brought in to do this for them. The Handmaids wear red full-length dresses, red flat shoes, red gloves and white wings. ... Gilead tries to justify the Handmaids job by giving it biblical reference. ... Pre-Gilead, women were established as being independent of men. ... Feminism was big and Offred’s mother shows this. ... Moira is a great example of how women were before Gilead. ... However, post-Gilead women’s roles changed. Women were told what to wear, what to do, even where they could go. ... The Handmaids are reduced to lesser beings. ... All women sticking together. However after Gilead women were completely on their own. ... There is a constant resentment between the women. Between the Martha’s and the Handmaids, the Handmaids and the Wives. Atwood is showing us how quickly everything that women had worked for was lost. ... The women worked so hard to get their independence from men, yet the men still have the ability to take this away from the women.