Handmaids Respone

             As I reading the novel, ¡§The handmaid¡s tale¡, I recognized the ¡§Republic of Gilead¡, is a country, which is not only under the religious theoretic rule, but also dominated by the masculine power. All the men in the Republic have various of privileges that the women do not have. In the first 100 pages of the novel, I realized handmaids have think about using their bodies to ¡§make a deal¡ with those ¡§Angle¡ in order to escape from the red center, therefore, it hints from the beginning, men have greater power in the Republic. In the Republic, everybody has been ranked. The ranks of women, like ¡§Aunt¡, ¡§Martha¡, and ¡§Wife¡ are specifically gendered words that mark the status of women. Therefore, regardless of her rank, a woman's central feature is her sex. Even a ¡§Wife¡, the highest-ranking woman in the republic, is defined in relation to a man, her husband. Words such as ¡§Commander¡, ¡§Guardian¡, and ¡§Angel¡ name men's various ranks of power, but the words themselves do not reduce individual men to their sex alone. In the novel, we always see those words like ¡§unwomen¡, ¡§unbabies¡ but we never see the word like ¡§unmen¡, it means there are no sterile men in the Republic¡s ideology and only women have defective in the eyes of the Republic¡s law. Moreover, men in the Republic are not defining through their bodies¡ functions, but women do, the major purpose of women in the Republic is to reproduce baby. If those women fail to produce baby, they will declare as ¡§unwomen¡, and will be sent to the colonies and die in there. In the novel, we can see that all aspects of women¡s life were being highly regulated, their speech, writing, reading, job, economic independence or even their name. Those handmaids are never given individual names; the Republic regards them as objects or rather as state property and if giving them...

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