The Handmaid's Tale

I really enjoyed the ending of the book. We are left wondering what happens to Offred. Awesome. Now I have something to ponder for a while!

Honestly, I kept imagining the story to be taking place a long time ago, like mid 1900's. The fact that women were not aloud anything was upsetting. It was even more upsetting when the Commander said that the women should be left to do what they were created to do (have babies) in peace. He was pretty much saying that, although women CAN do more complicated tasks, it isn't natural. Women in this book were the machines, they were the technology to populate the world. So much for women's rights. People were used against people; there was no superior force working there except the fear of the colonies. The eyes, the spies, the aunts all drove the fear of the colonies into their heads.