“The Handmaid’s Tale” Margaret Atwood (1985) Review | Interesting yes but scary

The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, 1985
337 pages
Read in 2018
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽

✔ Atwood’s groundbreaking dystopia
✔ In near future, the world is in a war and systematic misogyny in in place
✔ Offred’s fight for freedom in the male society

★★★★★ Dystopia that could happen in near future. This is the terminal point of misogyny. Women are no longer human but tools to perform some roles. Interesting yes, very much, but above all scary.

🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

I borrowed it from a Canadian friend of mine who is a big fan of Atwood, I must say, I was actually staying in a hospital for weeks that time so it was pretty heavy!

Offred is one of very few fertile women left so she has been enslaved to reproduce a child for a commander and his wife.
Not so long ago she had her own life with a husband and a child and she cannot easily let it go. 

This is the terminal point of misogyny. 
Women are no longer human but tools to perform some roles.
Even wives are just a role, there is no affection between married couples.
You could write a few books dissecting the theme, but let's pause and ponder that Atwood wrote this story in the 80s.

The story is obviously awfully interesting but it's at the same time scary that maybe in 20 years or so, this could be reality somewhere in the world.

🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

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The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel