The Handmaids Tale: Oppression of Women for Male Political Gain

"Maid Story" is a story of a poet explaining the survival of a woman as a maid of the Republic of Gilead led by a male. Offred depicts the struggle as a maid, basically it is a walking uterus and a human slave. Women of Gilead are suppressed because they are seen as "strict management is necessary for potential threats and subversion" (Calawi 48). Through the creation of the caste system, ceremonies, and maids, fears of women's rebellion and social control were stopped.

The suppressed story of maid women should be safe freely. Security should come from. However, Margaret Atwood's "Maid Story" seems not to have such a thing. Atwood looks for a medium between the two in the whole novel, but in my opinion she does not treat female body images fairly. Today's society has a fear of beauty and sex in this image. It looks like a beautiful woman, but at the same time, if she is motivated and motivated by her behavior as a sexual life she is considered to be using herself and her body.

This article attempts to oppose this positive reading. The story of maid is to oppose female repression, but it actually reproduces the tendency of patriarchal superiority. Like Newton's "patriarchal" feminist construction, the maid story provides a "tragic" view of gender relations where women's male oppression is considered "unchanged, universal and holistic". As a result, the reader provided by this text is not a positive resistance position to patriarchal, but rather a lonesome position resembling the hero's deadly act. In this sense, the position of the main theme provided by the maid story is the victim - place.

Women's oppression of Marjane Satrapi's "Persian Persepolis" written by Margare Atwood's "The Story of the Maid" and Marjane Satrapi is a memoir of a small girl raised in Iran. In contrast, she refers to the secular era before the revolution, the repressive character of the women's fundamentalist government. Her work is very similar to Margaret Atwood's "Maid's Story". His protagonist Alfred reflects her earlier freedom of life and values ​​her earlier name.