Discuss the symbolism of colour in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
Margaret Atwood, the author of ‘The Handmaids Tale’ uses colours in her narrative as an extremely symbolic, uncredited, and important supporting character. The colours symbolize certain concepts and ideas in lifestyles such as feelings of hope, defiance, anger, hopelessness, and repression.
The women in the tale are perceived to have neither say nor choice on the apparel to wear but are forced to wear for their roles and duties.
However, despite the world silencing women and stripping away their rights, the colours in their clothes represent who they were in society. Therefore, colours in women’s dresses spoke for them and revealed their identities. As regards, this essay explores the symbolic use of colours in the tale to depict different meanings in life.
