Indledning
Equality is seen as a basic human right, and a high percentage of the world’s countries live by these rights. These rights claim, that men and women are worth the same, all love is accepted, people have the freedom of expression etc.
In ”The handmaid’s tale” written by Margaret Atwood in 1985, a dystopian world is created, where criticism of the world we’re living in appears. A dystopia is an imagined futuristic universe and is in opposition to a Utopia, which is a perfect illusion of a universe.
In this novel, Atwood uses the theme feminism, which creates a window into how a society could end up looking like if human rights are not being practiced.
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Uddrag
The novel is set in Gilead, a totalitarian state who has replaced the united states of America. It is narrated by Offred, a handmaid living in Gilead. A handmaid is a woman who is giving birth to babies of the elite couples in Gilead.
In this society, everyone is classified into different groups, and everyone has different functions. Gilead is brainwashing people, making people believe that life before Gilead was a nightmare and that Gilead is a Utopia in preference to what it really is, a Dystopian society.
In the quotation; “We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice", Aunt Lydia, a woman Indoctrinating the handmaids in Gilead, refers to the old society in a negative way and makes it seem like choice is a bad thing.
This makes the handmaids fear the outside world, and the brainwashing occurs. Another example of brainwashing, is written in the text as “They seem undressed. It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this”.
Offred realizes that she is getting brainwashed, but can’t do anything about it, because she is under constant surveillance.
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