The Fractionalized Role Of Women In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

Abstract

The present research paper is based on disunited women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s tale.The story deals with the oppression and male dominance over women,the story has been set on the republic of gilead and its fundamentalist regime that treat women as a property of state in order to repopulate the devastated world.A group of fertile women were forcefully indulged in sexual activities with view to have child from their wombs,all the liberties from these women were snatched and they devoid them from all the basic human rights,but here Atwood imagines the feminine roles that support and enable the repression of other women.The novel surpasses with expression of disunity amongst the women living in gilead.This research paper turns the focus of The Handmaid’s Tale from the situations of patriarchal control and traditional misogyny to the matriarchal network showing the women’s hatred of women.Men were always percepted as rulers over women but imagine the situation where a group of women is doing injustice to other group of women by creating a matriarchal control, such evidences are traced in The Handmaid’s Tale.Women are seen playing different roles divided into different identities that are meant to represent different feminine ideals.