|| 3.5 ⭐️ ||

Since I’m not a feminist, I was so curious to know what the deal is with this book.

As a literary work, if you simply read it as another dystopian novel, it’s not bad. The plot is fairly interesting. Aside from the sexual references which seem to dominate a lot of dystopian novels; I guess because every Godless society seems to be driven purely by unfettered human impulses, and this is no exception. Indeed, this is a story about a Godless society, no matter what Atwood tries to frame it as with her out-of-context Bible verses. It’s like she believes that all Christians read about the situation that happened between Abraham, Sarah and Hagar… and then condone it as a prescriptive passage in the Bible. This is not at all a story about a godly, conservative, complimentarian society gone too far. It’s very cult-like and incredibly sad, full of evil and people stripped of all their dignity: not just women, but men too. It’s a society where satan would be having a heyday, and no genuine believer would advocate for any of it. None of the sides represented in this book are aligned with God or His word.

So in summary, if you take God out of things and use random Scriptures to indulge the flesh, if you think surrogacy is a good thing, if men have no authority over them nor accountability for their actions, if humans are all just clumps of cells who evolved from nothing and have no God-given value, then you get The Handmaid’s Tale.