Society's Views On Family Values And Children As Reflected In The Novel The Handmaid's Tale

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and weapons combined with
the fanaticism of a medieval based church create a dictatorship like none
other. The novel deals with the treatment of children harshly for a society
which views children as their last hope, their most valuable commodity.
Children are taken away from their homes to be given to the privileged, and
women are forced to give birth to babies they can not keep. The society of
Gilead takes the views of a traditional religious monarchy and enforces
them with modern day power.
In the novel The Handmaid's Tale, there is a place called the "Red
Center", which is a training facility. When one thinks of a training
facility they tend to invision a military base with young soldiers learning
what they need to know to survive. Atwood's "Red Center" is very similar
to this type of facility; it has soldiers inside the facility and people
are being taught how to survive. Women in the "Red Center" are being taught
how to become submissive to the new order. The "Red ...

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not on birth rights, but on power and status of an individual. In
the early years of Gilead, a child could have easily been taken away from
a family and given to a powerful commander or anyone of high status. As the
years went by, the under class were simply not able to have any children,
the right reserved for only the rich and powerful. Any woman who had the
ability to have children were taken away from there homes and forced to
become Handmaids for the elite. The public was told that it was all for the
good of the society, and if anyone resisted, they were delt with quickly
and harshly. This was no longer a democracy. Families were torn apart with
no hope for reconcile. Custody ...

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