What Is The Moral Of The Handmaid's Tale

1762 Words4 Pages

Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaids Tale displays characteristics and techniques of the imagination tradition. The book is in the totalitarian dystopia category, incorporating symbolism, characterization, imaginary and pattern into its horrific storyline. The novel takes the reader into an imaginary place, but one that people in today’s world would not make it in. The handmaid’s tale tries to make an effort to create the paradise where for the people in the sons of Jacobs, everyone knows the Bible; they end of failing and creating a dystopia instead. In the novel religion is the main focus of the Gilead the entire plan of Gilead including its state religion is made up of one goal, and that goal is to take over reproduction. What Gilead is facing is a dramatic issue. …show more content…

Mainly the woman body’s, by coming for the woman body they feel as though this is an aspect of controlling the woman by taking her power also her voting right. The people of Gilead are in a tuff situation and they have to overcome and eventually they do but they have to go through hell for better days. Throughout the book, the Gilead society contradicts themselves because there is no way you can be all about the bible and make these kinds of decisions. Nothing of god says strip woman of their rights take man’s freedom or hurt the next person to get ahead. By exploring the primacy of religion, the Handmaid's Tale shows the aspect of both notice and unnoticed consequences for the people living in Gilead by including negative community repercussions such as religion outlook, misleading point of views, and abuse of

Open Document