Some critics say that The Handmaid's Tale is a pure Science Fiction with little or no relevance to the actual society. Margaret Atwood wanted to show a way of how far contemporary errors lead to. Actually she took facts from today (the book was written in 1986), and imagine how could become society if people do not do anything to arrange life's quality . "Moving , vivid and terrifying, I only hope it's not prophetic", as Conor Cruise O'Brien, from The Listener. This fear is almost easy to understand because of the facts we read in the book that we recognise in our contemporary world. Then the idea would be to move things, to show people that they have to change habits, way of thinking. It is important to know that Margaret Atwood was also a critic; this could let us think that The Handmaid's Tale is a critic of today's society.
             It is also a critique of anti-abortion rhetoric and some reproductive technologists. In Gilead, women do not have the control of reproduction. "The novel has been criticised for making capitalist, contemporary America seem like a free haven. Only the dictators argue that contemporary gender politics harm women." (http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/atwood157-des-.html) . Effectively Angela Carter, going in the same way says that "The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and profoundly felt moral story" . And we can focus in American society because in the book the society named Gilead (refers to an idealistic society in the Bible) is considered to be the future American society.
             We will try to understand which facts Atwood found in today's society that are present in her great book.
             But like everything we first have to check the context of Atwood 1986' society, because she had great contemporary sources that surely influenced her way of thinking.
             The first thing t...