Gender As Portrayed In Margaret Atwood's Novel

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In this book the men are being portrayed very accurately. Although the women are shown accurately and how they react to the actions of the men. However I think the men are expressed in a better form in this novel. It shows how the men grew up and were taught how to treat women. The time period was when women did not have as high as a power as men.
Women have been deprived for many and many of years. In this book it displays this extremely well.The men are shown very well in this book to how they would act in this time period.They are very mean and abusive language towards the women.Gender is portrayed as a social construction, something that people learn as they grow up, not something they're born with.
It's much easier for the male characters

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