She struggles to balance her desire to escape her new prison with her own safety and that of her daughter who she desperately wants to see. As The Handmaid’s Tale progresses, Offred learns more and more about the society she’s now a part of and the darkness has no bounds. Their single purpose in life is to have children for elite, infertile couples. They have to submit to a monthly “Ceremony” in which they have to sleep with the Commander they are assigned to. Young fertile women, such as Offred, have been rounded up and reeducated in the belief system of Gilead. The main character, Offred, tells her story through a series of flashbacks and remembrances that detail her marriage, her child, and her capture. Under the guise of religion, Gilead control its citizens, from Handmaid to Martha and Wife in a very particular way. In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale readers will find themselves thrust into the world of Gilead, a totalitarian religious state that values childbirth and gender hierarchy over everything else. ‘Spoiler-Free’ The Handmaid’s Tale Summary
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