Margaret Atwood?s ?The Handmaid?s Tale An examination of wordplay and word play as a narrative technique in Margaret Atwood?s ?The Handmaid?s Tale? Atwood uses word play in this dystopian novel to reinforce themes and ideas and to compel the implication of and foreshadow ideas without direct allusion to them. Atwood?s character Offred as well as uses word play to both remember her past and as a conscious resistance to her present. The novel is set in the Republic of Gilead, formerly the USA. The country is both at contend and undergoing Ethnic Cleansing.

Due to pollution and other factors the birth graze has declined below the line of zero replacement. Puritanical and scriptural influences on Gilead are evident throughout with women?s roles based upon Biblical precedents. Such as the Handmaid?s which mirror generation?s Rachael and Leah. All unmarried women with ?viable ovaries? are held in bondage to a ?Commander? for the sole nominate of procreation. Atwood alludes to the purpose of ...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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