As a feminist, The Handmaid’s Tale has been a huge part of my life recently. I feel as if Atwood is completely ludacris or even that far off in what she is writing. Although the novel takes it to extremes, even nowadays women are seen as fertile baby making mechanisms. We’re supposed to get married off, procreate, raise, and die. Our modern day society is even mirrored in the novel again in that in both instances women are silent and subservient to men. In the book, when women do rise up and take a stand, they are labeled “unwomen” and in real life when women stand up they are given nasty names like “Feminazis”, “dykes” and “bitches”.

In my opinion, Atwood wasn’t just writing this as a dystopian fiction, but also as an influential piece of literature to spark conversation and even change in the patriarchal society we live in considering much of the imagery depicted is a dramatization of what we are currently living in. The dehumanization of women has been going on for centuries in western culture, Atwood jusr takes it to the next level and exposes what could be in our future if we continue down the path that we are on.