ie Americaine ) But they also try to show a light touch of humanity. This is what I see as a contemporary source of The Handmaid's Tale. Individuality prevents all the discovery that can be found in the other, the different.
Margaret Atwood shows it very well, and we can see that as a result everybody is alone in there personal cocoon. I think that Atwood wanted to show that this great individualism that is present in America has to disappear and that it is clearly the time to discover what the other think to develop an opening spirit. Acceptation of the other is essential.
As we see it before there is a great separation. But even between men and wives there is one. In fact love has nothing to do in Gilead's society, the protagonist named Offred frequently repeat "Give
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