world (Anderson 1142). Women who can get pregnant have no choice except to become Handmaids or official breeders. Those who cannot are seen as being unnecessary even though most of the women are sterile. "...in The Handmaid's Tale [Atwood] casts subtlety aside, exposing woman's primal fear of being used and helpless" (Atwood 3). The main character Offred refers to herself as a container and a prize pig, "I wait, washed, brushed, fed like
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