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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel in which a regime in the United States has taken over and created a new society known as Gilead. The coup took place at a time when there was a serious decline in population. The goal of the new regime was to have women with functioning ovaries become breeding machines. If a handmaid were to go against the system the consequences for the handmaid included being hanged at the wall or sent out to die of radiation sickness. Offred, the narrator of the story, was one of the many handmaid’s captured by the new regime. In Gilead, fear is everywhere and can’t be avoided by any handmaid. Offred, unlike her long-time friend Moira, is not naturally blessed with courage. When she is new to Gilead, Offred is always on the look out fearing the eyes that quietly watch her but as time passes and her want for human warmth and affection becomes the only thing she can think about, does she start to defy authority or does fear remain a constant......

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