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Analysis Of The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

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In this society, men have more power than women; however, Atwood uses the narrator’s point of view to portray her argument that gender should not be the determining factor in the balance of power. In Gilead, the futuristic setting of the dystopian society, the government and church are one in another, making laws and regulations to oppress women and stating that it’s the ’word of god’. Along with many biblical allusions, Atwood shows us how the men in power would discourage women, using them for reproduction and housework, a literal slave to these men to do what they want, whenever they wanted it done. Women were forced into having meaningless sex with men they have no connection, and usually no interest in, because the government (men) wants

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