Handmaids Tale - Top 3 Feautures

1. This is a novel...With a strong sense of place and time.

This is the one that best characterises the novel for me, as it is a dystopian novel and Atwood uses great description of the current affairs and the ideas in society which is most surprising and interesting to me compared to everything else. She initially starts with introducing the Red Centre which gives a strong sense of place and grows ideas about when, where and how. This is most significant i believe

2. This is a novel... About the exploitation of women

I think this is the second thing that best characterises the novel. As Offred being the main character and learning about her past and how she is treated as well as the other female roles we learn to find through her storytelling ability we come to understand how this gender has been taken advantage of and selfishly utilised.

3. This is a novel... Containing a warning

Considering Atwood being a feminist, i think the story holds a warning about the exploitation of women and the fears of how society will eventually deal with them. Arguably she plays on this idea and the thought of male dominance and