This novel criticizes and warns people about anti-feminism. The society in this book is very controlling of women. They make it seem like it is fair and good but they are just taking away women’s freedoms to give them safety. This book warns people about the reversal of women’s rights. The citizens of this new country are placed in different categories. The women are either Handmaids, Wives, Prostitutes, Aunts, Daughters, or Econo-Wives. The men are Commanders, Guardians, Eyes, or Angles. There are strict rules placed on the women of this society more than the men. For instance the men are commanders and policemen while the women are just wives and prostitutes. The women aren’t even aloud to read. This is a form of mind control and suppresses the women in this society a lot. The author, Margaret Atwood, creates a powerful message towards women of this reversal of women’s rights. She really shows us that we shouldn’t take things for granted and that women have to keep fighting to make sure their new found rights are kept. This society seems almost like a science fiction society because of the infertility. But overall the book sends a very powerful message of suppression to the extreme. Atwood uses flashbacks a lot in this book to give her reader a constant reminder of how things used to be for Offred. It is a juxtaposition of past and present and how much women’s freedoms have changed. Readers are hopeful for Offred when they find out about the resistance groups and that the Commander, Nick, Ofglen, and even Serena help Offred along the way.
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