Literary Analysis of The Handmaid's Tale

As a dystonia novel, the Handmaid's tale imagines a nightmarish future in which a totalitarian theocratic government subjugates and enslaves women for the purpose of sexual reproduction. Published in 1985, the novel confronts many complex themes still relevant to our culture today, including the relationships pf power to sex, gender, language, religion, memory, and love, just to name a few. For this paper, choose a recurring idea, image, or theme in The Handmaid's Tale and make an argument about its role and relevance to the novel as a whole. In order to make your argument, you will need to enlist at least two outside sources that offer clarity of insight into your argument and synthesize them into your paper-adding other academic voices to depend and complicate your argument.

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