Essay on The Handmaids Tale as a Warning to Society -- Handmaids Tal

The Handmaids Tale as a Warning to Society   Margaret Atwoods celebrated science fiction novel, The Handmaids Tale, was written in 1986 during the rise of the opposition to the libber movement. Atwood, a Native American, was a vigorous supporter of this movement. The battle that existed between both sides of the womens rights issue inspired her to write this work. Because it was not clear provided what the end result of the feminist movement would be, the author begins at the number one to prod her reader to consider where the story get out end. Her purpose in writing this serious satire is to strugglen women of what the female gender stands to tolerate if the feminist movement were to fail. Atwood envisions a guild of extreme changes in govern rational, social, and mental oppression to make her point.   Early on it is evident that the authority of this society has been changed from a theocracy to a totalitarian government. The first sentence reveals that the curren t quick quarters of the main character, Offred, are located in what had once been the gym (3). The fabricator recounts the past fifty years in this place from felt up skirts of the fifties to the green spiked hair of the nineties. Then she turns to describe its change into what resembles an army barrack reasonable now is actually functioning as a kind of prisoner of war camp. In these few short sentences, Atwood has depict the conditions of a place called Gilead, which is located in what used to be called the joined States. In chapter four the author reveals that the current government is waging a war against the church. This is evidence that this society has shifted away from recognizing God as its supreme authority. The narrator then mentions that church song... ... the past, Offred continues to hope that her husband, Luke, is still alive. She reveals this as she observes the bodies hanging at the wall and comments that she feels relief because, Luke wasnt a doctor. Isnt (44). Not only does she defy the remains be refusing to accept this society as the end of all things, but she also persists in hoping that she will someday awaken from this nightmare and things will be the way they used to be.   The ending of the novel is intentionally lack direction because the author wants the reader to ponder its ending. Were it not for the fact that we, the readers, cheat that Offred lives to tell her story, we would be left like the people of Gilead, without hope. However, Margaret Atwoods point is that just as naturally as a caterpillar weaves its cocoon to climb up wings and fly free, so to must the wings of women be.