The Maybe Not Too- Distant Unlikely Future?

The Handmaid's Tale is an interesting book that takes place in a dystopian future. Life is extremely regimented and controlled. I believe the book draws many parallels between its own plot and the rhetoric of today. In the book woman are thought of as objects each that are only good for child bearing and working in the home. Woman are separated into different ranks each being distinguished by their uniforms they wear. The main character wears a white hat with a red dress covering up their body not showing any skin. This reminds me of today in that many women are delegated to work in the home and also wear certain clothes because the media tells them to. In one point in the book a woman walks in the market with obvious signs of being pregnant and Offred can't help but think that she is showing off because it is noted that pregnant woman don't have to leave the house. Childbearing is important in Gilead so woman who are fertile are revered. I also found it interesting about how she goes back and forth between her life right now and her previous life before she lived in this situation. People are hanged who used to be doctors and nurses which i am assuming used to do abortions or something along those lines. There is a reference to the fact that it didn't matter if it was legal before but that is illegal now and crimes are retroactive. Overall I like how the character is contrasting her life right now and when she was a child and when she was a mother before she lived in a society that virtually controls all that she does.