THE DEPICTION OF WOMAN IN “THE HANDMAID’S TALE” BY MARGARET ATWOOD
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The article focuses on the representation of woman and the image of the society in the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale”. The Author paid an attention on the issues which women of the US faced and wanted to show their lifestyle in the dystopian society. This novel have been investigated and analyzed by many critics and researchers and their opinions about the novel have been given in the introduction part of the article. The main aim of this article is to show the attitudes towards woman in the dystopian society. Besides that, restrictions, discrimination and prohibition towards women in the novel have been analyzed with examples from the novel.
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