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Handmaid's Tale Themes - Coggle Diagram
Handmaid's Tale Themes
Oppression of Women
Handmaid's are required to bear children and participate in the ceremony with the commander. It is their only purpose.
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The wives are also without control. They have to let someone else have sex with their husbands while they watch. Offred's emptiness is similar to that of the commander's wife.
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Hope Versus Hopelessness
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She considers suicide but can never go through with it. Metaphor of being under the water at the bottom of a well. She cannot reach the rope; she is separated by her rope in the fantasy of the possibility of who she used to be.
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