The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a cautionary tale. It
             touches on the dangers of making unquestioned assumptions about gender
             relations, even within the feminist movement. The women in the tale had lost
             a lot of power. They had lost what naturally considers them humans. They
             lost their rights, their power, and their freedom. They were not permitted to
             have their own possessions, can't read magazines, no friendships, and no
             relationships whatsoever. The Handmaid's Tale warns against making
             unitary judgments about gender and then infusing them with moral and
             societal imperatives. Gender roles were implanted on their society through a
             course of time. Though the women suffered and did not have a say in
             anything; they struggled to maintain a certain mindset that would allow them
             to accept the way things were being ran and to accept the fact that they were
             looked down upon no more than an object. "My self is a thing I must now
             compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not
             The women at the time felt as if they did not have a choice. They felt as
             if they were living on some ones command, in which they were. The
             Handmaids were used to give labor to children that weren't theirs once
             brought onto this planet. They were used as carriers and then sent away to
             place, far, far away from the family to whom she blesses with a child.
             Women didn't have a choice in deciding who they wanted to spend the rest
             of their lives with, their lives were controlled by the greater power. Man has
             held such an overpowering image over women. The women feel that they
             have no identity, besides the fact that they are being used to benefit others.
             In Atwood's novel, the privileged few are a small number of powerful men.
             They are what the women aren't, and they make use of the women for their
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