The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

The book “The Handmaid’s Tale” written by Margaret Atwood takes place in a dystopian society in which men are seen as being superior than women. Besides the obvious remarks that this book shows such as sexism, this book also gives a more concealed message in which it satirizes the ridiculousness of the fact that many women of the present generation do not want to be considered and do not wish to join the feminist movement. This idea is explored throughout the whole book, in which the main character, Offred, does not believe that feminism is needed and even ridiculed her mom when she talked about feminism and how is still needed. Ironically, as a result of that believe, a religious group was able to easily manipulate people and get control over

the government when everything was in chaos. In the same way, many young women in the present generation refused to be label as a “feminist” because they think that the current situation is fine, when it’s not. Considering that there is still a lot of objectification and degradation of the women in media, news, and workplaces. If women from the current generation stopped fighting for equality, there would not be a feminist move in the future which will leave women exposed to any attacks against their rights, which is exactly what happened in the novel. Women were not as engaged in the feminist movement, so when the religious group started taking away their rights one by one, they did not do anything because they didn’t realized that the target was their rights. However, if women in the book were active in the feminist movement, they would have taken actions when the first signs of sexism were shown, such as freezing all the accounts of females, and the religious group wouldn’t have been able to reduce women to objects as easily. Therefore, the novel satirizes the fact that women do not want to join the feminist move effectively, because it shows the kind of future women would have without feminism.