In The Handmaid's Tale by Margret Atwood the main character is definitely held back by limiting beliefs. Growing up, she had a fairly normal life. She went to school, made friends, got married and had a little girl, but when the war started, everything changed. Now, she is living as a handmaid; women who are considered to only be useful for breeding. The things that are keeping her from breaking out of her new ordinary world are others beleifs that they have brainwashed her into thinking are true. She reminisces about her life with her husband and daughter, but she is too afraid to look for them. If I could talk to her, I would tell her something that she already knows deep in her heart; that her life doesn't have to be the way it is, and she has the power to change it.
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