hat I recognised from today's society is the formation of groups in the society. In the 80's we can easily see that different groups are gathering, because it is apparently easier to talk to a person that has the same origins, colour or way of living. In Gilead's society the groups are formed with a simple base: women with women, the Marthas, Handmaids and wives ( with an exception with the econowives that has others relevance with today's society and that will be dealt later on).
             The men are always together and have a proper house, distant from women. In the 80's we can see that the distinctions are obvious. Perhaps not in the same way, but with the same idea to separate the one who's different. Without thinking about what he can bring to you as an experience. In fact the separation between sex, obligations and past in Gilead's society is quite the same with the one we see in the separation between cultures, social life and colour in America in the 80's. The gettos in America are a huge problem because of the fear of the other, of the difference.
             In Gilead's society the difference is everywhere, a wife do not friendship with a Martha, neither with the handmaids, owing to the cruelty of the circumstances. Gilead's society is based on individualism. " individual rights are absolutely preeminent in the Constitution and very important to every American. But when you stop there and do not add a sense of community and an obligation to others, then you've condemned yourself to a kind of arid existence. You cannot make it with just individual rights."(Today's life choices, challenges for our Times: http://tlc.goldendome.com/episodes/transcrips/1102script.html) "Individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but in the long run, it attacks and destroys all others and is at length absorbed in downright selfishness." ( Alexis de Tocqueville: La Democrat...