The Handmaid’s Tale as a Representation of Women Under the Law

The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel and TV show, is about a dystopian society where women have been stripped of their rights by the religious government of Gilead. This government organization has limited women by not letting them hold jobs, have a bank account or control their bodies. An event of environmental poisoning had sterilized most of the female population, so Gilead enslaved the fertile women, they call them handmaids. Each handmaid was assigned to an influential family where the husbands rape the handmaid, once the handmaid becomes pregnant, the…