Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale: A Representation of Woman's Oppression in the Gileadean Patriarchal Society

Feminism talks of the equality of men and women. It is the core belief in and advocacy of economic, social and political equality of both the sexes. Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” explores her vision of feministic ideology. This paper deals with the idea of the status of women in the society of Gilead. She portrays the oppression of women through the character of Offred and other female characters in the Gileadean patriarchal society. Atwood comments the recent tendency of feminism through satire to give the awareness on how the feminist visions end up in dystopias.