Upon reading through Margaret Atwood’s book, The Handmaid’s Tale, I came out asking a ton of questions. For the basis of essay #4, I chose to base the focus on this one question: Why did the women choose to endure everything they did for the sake of a certain belief? This is going to be a tough topic for me to accomplish an essay on, but I will do the best I could for it. The book was very confusing to me, so hopefully this research paper will help me better understand it.
To attempt to better understand the writings of Atwood, I am focusing the research on cults, and comparing the information I find to that of the writing in The Handmaid’s Tale. Through my research, I will find more information on why the women endured what they did by being used for the process of reproduction.
By choosing to research cults, which is a gigantic topic that could explode if looked too deeply into, I am hoping that understanding the works of cults will help me to see the reasoning for the totalitarian presence in The Handmaid’s Tale and what their basic reasoning was for choosing to have handmaid’s to do their reproduction. This seems very odd to me that others would read the Bible, yet have someone to reproduce for them. I suppose I have a different belief than that of the Commander in the book.
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0015618.html - Examples of Totalitarianism
