“INTERSECTIONALITY IN MARGARET ATWOOD THE HAND MAID’S TALE”
As a negative thing but it has been common in society, intersectionalityand discrimination are problems that have become the focus of research study with the aim to better understand and to find solutions to those social problems. Problems arising from intersectionalityand discrimination are also widely poured in the form of novels to parse the root causes of it as well as a means to provide solutions through the plot of the story in a novel that coherently expose various circumstances, figures, and events that describes intersectionalityand discrimination that occur in society.
A novelist named Margaret Atwood tries to pour problems related to intersectionality and discrimination in one of her novels entitled The Handmaid's Tales which tells the life of a handmaid named Offred. Handmaid is a term for a waitress who has a strange or unique job, that is to bear children from elite couples who have conceiving difficulty. Handmaids do not do homework as is commonly the work of servants, but Handmaid is really focused on reproduction and shopping tasks. In addition, it can be said that Offred's life, like the life of the other Handmaid in the novel, is severely restricted.