1. Religious Dystopia in The Handmaid's Tale
... to exist. An interesting point is implied, but left unspoken by Atwood. No matter how much their activities are confined, a society cannot function without women. Women always have a measure of power because they exclusively possess the means to propagate a society. But power isn't everything; sometimes it's the only thing that ... major fail of the attempted outcome. Or one ends up with a dystopia that destroys the current society, as we know it. Women were often seen as the lesser sex, but no doubt the most important. They were the only way children could be reproduced. However, the c...
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