1. The Handmaid's Tale
She watches as women's rights are supplanted and substituted as women become newly indoctrinated Handmaids. ... The women are slaves, and their only rights lie in their restriction: they have been granted freedom from speech, freedom from choice, and freedom from identity. ... Offred feels as if she and her sexual organs are not attached signifying that she feels like a reproductive machine more than a human being. ... There are the Marthas, or domestics who wear green, the Wives, or social secretaries and functionaries who wear blue, the Jezebels, or sex machines who wear outdated ling...
- Word Count: 1783
- Approx Pages: 7
- Grade Level: High School