Comparing The Handmaid's Tale And The Power

Across the world almost everyone is informed about feminism and how it is the fight for equal rights among both genders, not defeating or fighting men. Many things have changed, women can drive, vote, speak, and much more they could never do before but when it comes down to politics, still only 17% of the seats in Congress are held by women. Feminism is spreading greatly and a lot is being achieved but there are still many things to work on, it is an interesting topic that many should learn about. Reading fictional books can help a person better understand what feminism is. The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood and The Power written by Naomi Alderman both analyze the different types of feminism around the world, yet both novels have

However when the males were in power nothing could stop them. The reader of the two novels can see many different ways that the men took the power right under the womens feet, while the women only had one way to take the males out of their superior position. The Handmaid’s Tale has a more realistic view of what the current society is like.
Not only is there lack of power for women in today's current society, and many decades ago but there is also the lack of power for the women in The Handmaid's Tale. The women had their rights taken away, they’re not allowed to buy anything anymore. When Offred the main protagonist of the story went to buy some cigarettes at a store she was denied of her purchase. This was because “women can’t hold property any more [...] it’s a new law” (Atwood, 206). This was when it all started, many women got rightfully upset and found it obscure. After women have gotten their daily rights taken away, their property, pretty much everything, it got rid of their bravery as well. People “especially women were scared” to fight for

The men, even the poor ones, are still superior to any of the rich women. Men are everywhere, getting the better jobs, making more money and doing what they please, this is due to what society has made men into. The “two men in Guardian uniforms stand there, watching everyone” with guns (Atwood, 29). The possession of guns is seen as superior. Men also use society’s help to make them feel greater than they actually are, through this they verbally abuse women. Men downgrade women and talk bad about them, after all they are only being used for “chores around the house” or for sexual activities (Atwood, 55). Not only do women go through mental and verbal abuse but they get physically hurt as well. There were different ways that women could be abused, the most common was when “they had electric cattle prods slung on thongs from their leather belts” which could cause immense pain (Atwood, 4). The physical abuse was a way to keep women in line and to make them do what they were told. The women had to go through a lot just so that the men could feel powerful and be the gender with all the power. Within the novel The Power, Alderman shows that even though that women use their power to physically hurt men and gain power, it is still not as bad as what men do. Before women had power, they were underestimated, not