Summary Of Handmaid's Tale

After analysing Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid's Tale and Alia Dharssi’s ‘Completely failing women’: Why the Zika epidemic is really a women’s rights crisis, it is clear to see the detrimental effect that external factors like state leaders and environmental conditions have on women's’ freedom and independance. Government’s like Gilead and Brazil claim to find proper solutions to different crises, but ultimately use them as an excuse to seize power for their own benefits at the expense of people they deem disposable. Gilead strips away all the rights of women in the name of recovering the population after an environmental disaster left most of the population infertile. In reality, it is just a ruse to cover up the fact that “There was nothing