There have been a lot of references made to this novel in recent months. So, I decided I had to find out for myself, why.
If I had to describe Atwood’s “tale” in one word, it would be DISTURBING. A world destroyed. Patriarchy. Loss. Re-populate. Trapped.
At times I found it extremely difficult to continue. It wasn’t graphic. It was more jaw-dropping. A lot of…what? Are you kidding me? How does that work? How could you so devalue human life? When do the ends justify the means? How do the goals of the few negate the lives of the many? Where and when did society lose its moral compass? When and where did we veer off path?
I don’t like to think of this as a cautionary tale…but over the past year some of these same ideologies have crept into our society. My takeaway? Hope. Hope for a future engineered by all of us, for all of us.
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