A Critique on the Women Objectification in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Keywords:
Commodification, Reproduction, Servitude, Objectification, Women ObjectificationAbstract
The present research is carried out to explore the commodification of women in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale with objectification perspective. This research is design to determine the factors and figure out ways, which allows women to be treated as a commodity in the Gilead society where women are exploited under the control of men. The present study highlights incidents of commodification of women. Women are used as a tool for reproduction and servitude and the reinforcement of the process of commodification or objectification in the selected novel. This study investigated the commodification of women. This paper, is essentially qualitative in nature, takes into consideration David Greenham's Close Reading (2019) and uses the lens of Roberts' and Fredrickson’s Objectification Theory (1977).
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