"Then they burn you up with the garbage, like an Unwoman." (216)
Atwood feels it necessary to include the term "unwoman" in this sentence, because it shows just how brutally women punish other women just for refusing to become an object. Despite the fact that it is the laws that essentially makes the women have to be so emotionless and anti-sex, it's the other women that are in support of all of these movements that make it so much worse. They're the ones that enforce the removal of all womanly qualities and unsexualizing. Throughout the book, Atwood makes a point of having very little law enforcement - it's all other women. Women in general have a tendency to feel the need to fix anything that doesn't please them, which makes sense that Atwood would create a society in which women blame men on the extremist society, when it is really the women that are making it that much worse.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unwoman
present tense; always write of lit in the present; it's all other women.. they are the one's doing this -- what comment might Atwood be making about the nature of female communities; and what might she be saying about the strength/potential of men?
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