The Handmaid's Tale Summary

    On Friday, our group mentioned Moira was a gay, but we were wondering why she had not been send out since then was a strict society; and we also thought that Moira's escape would waver Offred's mind, but Offred would not leave since she had no courage and she fell in love with the commander. We thought the reason that Offred fell in love with the commander is that their interactions reminded Offred about past, like Luke and her. Furthermore, the sentence "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum", which appeared in page 52 and page 185, was a significant part for the handmaid who suited and the commander. It was their important connection.

    I found out a news relate to the Handmaid's Tale; a thirty-five-year-old women, Amira Osman Hamed, is a civil engineer. Refusing wearing the Hijab to cover her hair, she was arrested and charged with committing "indecent dress" and "contrary to public morality" on August 27. If she was convicted, she may be flogged for penalty. Both of the society and the government in the news and the Handmaid's Tale was limiting “women’s” dressing. The sentence “Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full. The white wings too are prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing, but also from being seen. “ in The Handmiad's Tale showed that the society thought women should be in a certain way. They had to cover their bodies and their hair without any comment. It seems like if they had revolted, the would have the same effect like Amira Osman Hamed. However, in our society, there are still many people support Amira Osman Hamed, complimenting she is a brave women.

News

There parts were adopted from "To close the gender pay gap we need to end pay secrecy".Women in full-time work take home A$283.20 per week less than men, according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, which puts the gender pay gap at 18.2%.More disturbing is that the gender pay gap is increasing. Under pay secrecy, conscious or unconscious bias can affect pay decisions. Managers are able to apply criteria that have an adverse impact on women.Second, pay over and above base pay is typically based on employee performance. Research shows women are less likely to get a high performance rating relative to their male counterparts.

In this news, we can see that the majority of the people usually determine women according to their genders. "The pro-male bias in performance ratings is particularly prevalent when women are in jobs traditionally carried out by men and the performance rater has strong gender stereotypes." They give women lower pay back which they deserve. Men and women do the same job, but they earn different money. We can connect the inequality shows in the news to the Handmaid's Tale, which is also include gender inequality. "Don't open your door to a stranger, even if ...by yourself,at night." In the Handmaid's Tale, this part shows that the antecedents always warn girls not to do this, not to do that. However, in both news and story, women and men do the same thing, but why women always got lower position and lower status? Both of women and men are alive, why should women limit themselves? 

Citation:http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/09/16/comment-close-gender-pay-gap-we-need-end-pay-secrecy

Poem

 "A Red Shirt", a poem written by Margaret Atwood, related to the Handmaid Tale according to the how they treat women. In the poem, the author wrote“Children should not wear red, A man once told me” ,this shows that the people in the poem drew up the rules for women. Women were kept from wearing red since it was the color of death, passion,war, anger and sacrifice of shed blood. “A girl should be a veil, a white shadow, bloodless as a moon on water” pointed out that people gave a model for a girl. They thought girls should be like what they wanted. Same as the poem, the Handmaid's Tale limited women's freedom. It seemed like to protect women, but it took away women's right actually. People always give the other "What they think is good" but never ask the other's thought.