What Is The Ending Of The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

In Mary Adams’ article: “Rereading Atwood after the Taliban,” Adams states how Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale can be compared to modern society as opposed to the time period it was written in, in the way that society has changed after the world has seen the Taliban and 9/11. Adams begins her article by simply explaining the simple parts and ideas of the book, and gives the readers background on Atwood’s unsure thoughts of the book as she was writing it. Adams states that Atwood has described her own work as a hypothetical view of what may possibly happen if the United States of America was aligned in an extreme politically right-winged way, and that it was too ridiculous for Atwood to continue writing her story because she “believed the plot to be

She then said that “Universities now drop women’s studies programs, claiming they have achieved their goals.” (75) This ties into her thesis on how Atwood’s novel is more relevant today than it was during the time period it was written in, since Western society has changed after the world has seen the Taliban and 9/11. I feel I can agree with her article as women oppression and misogyny still existed around the 1980s, but people did not realize this (which goes back to the universities dropping women’s studies courses) and assumed The Handmaid’s Tale is a pure fiction, when in reality many of the book’s concepts can be seen in the Middle East with the Taliban, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. In their ideal world, women are not allowed to learn, read, or write and are used as sex slaves and baby-making machines. Atwood’s novel’s ideas can also be seen in different governments other than the Middle Eastern countries, such as abortion being illegal (under most circumstances) in Ireland, the Philippines, and