Social Repression In The Handmaid's Tale, By Margaret Atwood

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The evolution of civilization has strived for a primary goal- to unite society. However, there are means to where this desired utopia expands and becomes a tyrannical dystopia. Through social suppression, dictators manipulate society to form an ideal society to meet their own standards in the belief to prevent another country from invading. Margaret Atwood takes the tapes recorded from an anonymous woman from the Gilead War to illustrate the immortalizing fear that is instilled from social suppression. In the beginning, it is made evident the societal roles within the Gilead civilization expose social standards of benevolent dictatorship. Offred, the narrator, indicates the differentiation of the roles as “black, for the Commander, blue,