Handmaid's Tale 2

On another note, I think The Handmaid's Tale can relate to science and technology by proving that humans too can be a part of our evolving technology. In this book I see the woman being more of a tool than a person. The technology in this case has not improved but just become more usable. The woman in The Handmaid's Tale are being used to bear children during a world that is valued on child bearing abilities. Today, we would never look at a person as a tool. People today are valued more for the skills that they hold, but shouldn't be forced to do things that can benefit other people.

In some cases, using a person as a tool could be seen as a decline in our science and technology. Today we have a lot of information that could one day allow us to physically create a person without the actual process of sex. We also have technology today that allows many processes to go on without the use of a person. These improvements are evolving our society. In The Handmaid's Tale we see a decline in this technology because they do not use these new improvements.