As the quote points out, the new regime took over gradually without anyone noticing and former US citizens now find themselves in a totalitarian society which is structured hierarchically with women divided into different categories depending on their age and most importantly their fertility. The novel tells the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the state of Gilead which has replaced the United States of America.
This quote is taken from Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale which was first published in 1985.
There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it. The Rise of the Christian Right and Reagan’s Presidency Categories of Women in The Handmaid’s Taleģ.1.
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