The Handmaid's Tale Summary

What is a perfect society? Most people would say where everyone is equal. However that is truly impossible even in make believe societies such as Gillan. The handmaid's tale proves how no society is perfect. How there is always a caste system within each and every society. In this society women just happen to be at the bottom with no right whatsoever. Moreover men are onto. The society of Gillian is completely unfair and is divided up. Here is a summary of how. On top of the cast are the commanders. Who rule everything. They make the rules of the society. Next come the spies. They are the people who watch over everything for the commanders. Basically the eyes and ears of the society. After the spies are the guardians who enforce everything. They are the only ones who have the privilege to carry a gun. Next are the aunts who teach the handmaid's what the need to know and the purpose in their society. The handmaids are the only woman who have the right to bare children. After they have the children the handmaid's must give the children to the wives. The wives do not technically even watch the kids but they do own them. The caste system from

They only right or privilege or whatever you want to call it goes to the handmaids. Those individuals have the privilege to bare children. Other than that they must sleep “In what has been the gymnasium” (Atwood 3). Proving they did not have certain rights to things like rooms. Handmaids were not even allowed to talk to each other. They “learned to whisper almost without sound” (Atwood 4).meaning that was the only way they can communicate with each other. Even the aunts prove that nothing is ordinary about how they treat the women by stating “This may not seem ordinary to you now, but in time it will” (Atwood 46). The rest of the women like the econwives are married to poor low ranking men. Also the unknown women are the lowest part of