The Handmaids Tale

I don’t understand why Margaret Atwood wants to display women as weak in the novel “The Handmaids Tale.” Offred is obviously miserable in the situation she is in even though she tells the Japanese people she is happy. I believe that Margaret Atwood created a contemporary world where women’s rights are stripped from them in the “Handmaids Tale” because she feels that women are treated unequal compared to men. Margaret was an active feminist and it is depicted through her literature. I would like to research Margaret’s biography and find out why she writes stories about, how angelfire.com described them as, “women struggling with inequality.” I chose this topic because the book, to me, is very confusing, and it is scary thought. I want to know what drove her to write of such things and why she was considered a feminist. It all seems to tie together and it make more sense the more I read about her.

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