Handmaid tales



Handmaid tales

Where does the darkness of Atwood's writing come from? The novel was published in 1985, and it shows several aspects, and an imaginary system that would take place in the year 2005 according to her. In this particular system defined by her women are divide into four kinds of “functional groups” depending on their abilities. It discusses the fear people had in 1098s, about the consequences of new methods taking place for birth control. Several diseases like AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases added to their fear, and they became more worried regarding the concern. It further discusses ...