Handmaids Tale
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Does the women of Gilead know that they are being controlled?
Are the women of Gilead aware that they are being controlled by the society? In Margaret Atwood¡¯s The Handmaid¡¯s Tale, the theme of control is a very important factor of the book. In the story, at the Republic of Gilead, the women ....
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.... was it? Aunt Helena says, holding up on plump finger.¡±(93), aunts ask such questions, which leads the women to think the way the society wants them to think. ¡°Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison.¡±(94), and the women repeats the answer out loud as a whole as if they were young kindergartners, and by doing so, they are being influenced and brainwashed. By treating them like children and making them repeat after what they say, they slowly influence the women, leading the ....
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