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  • Essay / Handmaid's Tale - 613

    In today's society, we all must follow the principles that come with America called the Bill of Rights. In the novel titled “A Handmaids Tale” by Margret Atwood, we learn that the principles used during the time of the people of Gilead are completely opposed to the rights we have as women today. Some of the most important amendments set forth in the Bill of Rights are opposed in this novel, such as the First, Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments. In the First Amendment, it is stated that all people have freedom of speech, religion, press, and peaceful assembly. When we start diving into the first few chapters of this book, it is proven that not all women have the right to express what they want or how they feel. They are simply seen as a fertility tool to pursue these women. who cannot have children. The Gilead also have a wasteland that is called settlements in the book that the government created for unwanted and unwanted women. This includes women of an undesirable religion, infertile women, as well as...