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Choose one or two (or three) of the following major themes in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, and write an 850 to 1200 word, double-spaced argument essay that explains how the plot or the setting or the characterizations or the narrative point of view or the use of symbols in the novel demonstrate the centrality of your selected theme or themes. If you choose two (or three) themes, you must also explain how they relate to each other in the novel. Provide evidence from the text for your claims.

Themes:

Gender, Sexuality, and Desire

Loneliness

Dehumanization

Freedom

Betrayal

Survivor’s guilt

Childlessness

Corruption, Hypocrisy, and Transgression

Disembodiment

Hope, Hopelessness, Expectation and Resignation

Memory: what is past is present.

Patriarchal culture