handmaids tale
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"The Handmaids's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dystopia about a world where unrealistic
things take place. The events in the novel could never actually take place in our reality." This is
most people views about this novel. However the ideas in the novel are not so far fetch. Although
the exact Gilead society would never happen in real life, it is not to say that certain society of the
past or even the present haven't incorporated some of the Gilead society. This essay will discuss
three examples in real life were the Gilead society was or still is in the world, and prove that some
places in the world then or now, used some of the theories of the Gilead society. First, is in Iran,
and other Arabic Countries, and how the women have no rights of there own. Second, is South
Asian countries that kill babies, because of imperfections or because just of their sex. And third,
during World War 2 when Hitler ran death camps and concentration camps.
In Pakistan, women's rights are non-existent, and many policies are that of Gilead in The
Handmaid's Tale...