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Handmaids Tale - College Essay

Handmaids Tale

Does the women of Gilead know that they are being controlled?
Are the women of Gilead aware that they are being controlled by the society? In Margaret Atwood¡¯s The Handmaid¡¯s Tale, the theme of control is a very important factor of the book. In the story, at the Republic of Gilead, the women are being controlled by the society to do what the society wants them to do. The handmaids are brainwashed before they start working for the society. But since the brainwashing happens so naturally over a period of time, the handmaids don¡¯t fully realize that they have been brainwashed by the society to do what the society wants them to do.
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the women repeats the answer out loud as a whole as if they were young kindergartners, and by doing so, they are being influenced and brainwashed. By treating them like children and making them repeat after what they say, they slowly influence the women, leading the women to think the way the society wants them to think.
Another example of the society trying to influence the women could be found when the Offred describes the part where the household assembles for the ceremony at the sitting room. The house hold waits for the commander to arrive, and until than they always watch the news on the television which Serena Joy turns on. But we can also realize that Offred has doubts about whether the news is real or not. ¡°Who knows if any of it is true? It could be old clips, it could be faked.¡±(105). Although she¡¯s having doubts, she still can¡¯t fight it off. As she watches the news, she runs into this part where the anchorman appears in the screen explaining the situation, and ...

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Added: 10/29/2007 04:36:34 AM
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