The Handmaid's Tale

So far in class, i have learned that women are once again put down. My group and I have discussed about role of domesticity. The role of Domesticity means that women should remain doing household chores rather than in a business store or being a manager at a company and that the role of men is to go out and earn money to bring home to the family. I have read that the roles of women in The Handmaid's Tale is a Martha or a Handmaid. For men, they have limitless jobs to do and are even referred to as Angels for their job as a guardian, policemen, or protector. In the book, I have learned that womenand men both have their own spheres of where each person fits in. I have also learned that there are things called neologisms and what they are, are words like brb, lol, roftl, and lmao. They help make up colloquial writing. Many people use colloquial writing everday. It can be to express an emotion, an action, or to say something speedily. A majority of neologisms that i know of are acronyms, like lolwhich refers to laugh out loud. Lol can act as though you're really talking to someone in a letter and actually laughng while you're reading.
In the handmaid's tale, they talk about buildings that dont have store names with words, but images. The stores do this so that women do not read or learn how to read. Offred however, already learned how to read since she had attended college before and was able to read and write. When the commander wanted to play scrabble with offred, it was a chance to seduce her, and scrabble is an illicit game because it involes a lot of contact. You have to look at the person and you also have to touch pieces, hand them over, etc. This also shows that women are vulnerable and have to do whatever a man, or a higher superior says to do.