The handmaids tale by Margaret Atwood Analysis

This paper reviews the book “Handmaid’s tale,” which is written by Margaret Atwood and published in the year 1985 by McClelland and Stewart. The book is written in the form of a speculative fiction about the life of Offred in the past and present. Additionally, the paper will review how women used to be treated in the past where they were denied their rights and freedom from many things. The paper will try to explain how life used to be in the past before the totalitarian government took place and how life changed to be much harder to the women because of the constitutional amendments made by the new regime. Summary In this book, Offered who is the narrator of the tale explains how life change from time to time due to the constitutional amendment in his country Canada.

Being used as a sex machine is harassment and therefore, the need to get support in advocating for this freedom. Harassing the handmaids sexually was denying them their rights and even their identity. Due to the environmental changes that brought about sterility in women, the government put in place rules to counter the decreasing birth rate in the country. In this case, the government demanded that married infertile women’s were allowed to use the handmaids to reproduce with their husbands and raise children in order to preserve their hierarchy (Sahu et al. These handmaids were sexually abused for it was not their consent to play sex with their masters in order to bore for them children but they were being forced.

In that society, the women have no right to resist any guidance given by men (Sahu et al, 2016). Some people have come up to defend the denial of some freedom to the women. They claim that denying women from studying will protect them from bad things which could be learned. “Gilead claims that even women are given freedom to choose for themselves, then they could undermine the authority of men and of their husbands at home” (Sahu et al, 2016). He further claims that giving the women all the freedom they want will be taking the society back. Instead of supporting women to fight for their rights, the government is seen to be giving the wealthy people the power to mistreat women.