The Handmaid’s Tale

Dystopia defined as “a society characterized by human society, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding” by dictionary.com.

I don’t offend read dystopian type novels because I feel like mind gets filled with convoluted thoughts that contradicts themselves. Strange as it is, I fantasize like other readers how those societies would exist in our ‘current” society. The Handmaid Tales, most definitely put me in that headspace. I can usually get through a book of this size in a day and a half, but only if I have nothing else to do. However, I found myself needing time to think. I had multiple only “oh shit moments” so much so, that I dreaded advancing to another page because I didn’t want the book to end. I could only read a couple of chapters at a time. That was all my mind could take!

Continuing reading more for spoilers!

Initially reading this book I was very nervous. I heard many stories about the book and how people are intoxicated by the T.V show or are it a movie… I honestly can not remember. I asked that my friends and family you like the motion picture to reframe for telling me details because I wanted to read the book.

I found myself intrigued with the Marthas. The secret holders of what was actually going on in the neighborhoods. It kind of reminds me of the Babusas in Ukraine who knows everything even if they weren’t looking for information. They know!

In the book, the section where the two women looked at the hanging bodies and noticed that the men were doctors. They were being charged “retroactively” for terminating pregnancies. They were hanged and put on display for being pro-life. Because in this reality women wouldn’t dare to think of a time to terminate a pregnancy. This scene was a prime example of the world today and our division on being pro-life or pro-choice. It is divided because laws and people believe that they should be able to tell a woman how and how to not live her life. Just like the women in The Handmaid’s Tale.

I am lost in thought, who is telling this story. Does she agree with this record?

…. So she and the commander got a thing going on? Playing chess, receiving soaps, and magazines. I am lost! What is going on? How was the government able to freeze all accounts with an “f” on it and fire all women from work? I guess inhumane laws can become humane if it is back up by the constitution or laws.

I am giving this 5 stars because I couldn’t stop obsessing over it but I wish there was more at the end.