The Handmaid's Tale
(Margaret Atwood)
Big Brother! You have nothing on this!This is the kind of novel that feeds our fears-that has helped create an awareness of what we could become...This book is a warning! Life could be very, very scary if Bush and America got their way. The Iraq War was just a taster of things to come...perhaps?Written in the 1st person, Atwood draws you into the life of the protagonist. Her fears, her hopes and her ultimate fight for freedom. Sounds cliché but when you read this book, it is anything but! Handmaid's Tale is set in a dystopia, in a world where even the men are being forced to live within certain parameters. Admittedly, these parameters are nothing compared to the humiliation that the women are forced to live with, but freedom is definitley an ideal of the past, or something belonging to Japanese tourists. (read the book!)A caste system evolves and man becomes humanity's own worst enemy. The novel's irony revolves around the fact that women are invaluable to this dystopian society, yet they are treated no better than cattle. They are stripped of their identity; they must take the name of the man they serve, forsaking their own; they wear a uniform, covering them from head to toe and big brother is watching constantly. We probably feel that this novel is far from ever reaching reality, however, CCTV, credit card fraud, lack of reforendum these days and not to mention the ever present desire to control the women in our society, who perhaps we look on with a little suspicion and envy (why should they have it all?) reminds us that perhaps its not so difficult to imagine. Atwood makes her novels believable, nothing she writes about is ever impossible; they only suggest that perhaps it is only a matter of time...
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