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The Red Struggle
March 5, 2019
Women in society are used to harboring love
But in Gilead, they are mere objects used by the Gov.
Moira, unlike Offred, stands up for women again and again
But she becomes complacent and fails to abstain
Blank is the past of Offred, depending on her name for hope
Her secrets unravel, like the previous Handmaid's. She must hang from a rope
© Anonymous
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This piece is based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tail. The novel hints on many ongoing struggles in our society, one of those being the oppression of women, and I wanted to make that prevalent through my text. In the story, one woman named Offred is burdened with having to endure the pain of all the previous Handmaids, women who were forced to have children with men, and she suffers in a similar manner to how they did. Her freedoms are ripped from her and there seems to be nowhere that she can take refuge.