Margaret Atwood has completely lost it!

The first part of The Handmaid’s Tale is very detailed and gives good descriptions of clothing, surroundings, and behaviors around Offred. The thing that is most clear is the way women are treated in this novel. This makes it a little hard to follow when all you read about is the objectification of women and how they are prohibited from talking and have no voice at all in the novel. For example, when Offred describes her room she calls it “the room” and does not dare attribute that it belongs to her. When tourist come around, the handmaids are not allowed to look at them and when they do, Offred describes the women in a nostalgic manner as she describes them and the way they dress. The chapter that grasped my attention the most was chapter 11 in which the doctor offers his “services” to Offred as a way out or in order to save her life. This book is the complete opposite of today’s society which makes it difficult for anyone to imagine. They mention that the cause for such oppression to women was the war but what could have possible happened for women to receive a horrible oppression. The novel brings back numerous oppressions that women have gone through in years past, however to me this seems a bit extreme and only makes me wonder if Margaret Atwood is traumatized because the idea’s she has throughout the novel are CRAZY!