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Comparative Analysis of American Society and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale The U.S.A. compared with Gilead in The Handmaid's Tale

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Some on the other side of the argument suggest that these women have an agenda, that they promote abortion and that they do not care about human life. The truth  is that no matter how right to lifers plead that abortion is truly about human life, and not about womens rights, it is about how women exercise control over their  bodies. Reproductive control is essential to the proliferation of the human species and whoever has control over that aspect, has control over the species. This point, among others, was made  in Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale. The work is somewhat of a science fiction novel and it creates a society that is patriarchal and religious in nature, and this  is so to an extreme. Religion and government are enmeshed and the people are at the mercy of the powers that be. Of course, not everyone sees this work as  being simply pro-feminist and anti-religion, though many do. Feuer says: "It is one of the few absolutes in the novel, for Atwood gives little comfort either to the religious rights  desire for a return to "traditional values" and a genderized society or to feminist essentialists" (83). In the novel, Gilead is created  to be sure that fertile women are available to the society. The society is class-based and those who are lucky are provided wives. There are penalties for noncompliance with the  rules and regulations. In this closed society, which is tightly regulated, the people are told that everything is for their own good. This has frightening parallels to contemporary life in  America. While there are factions trying to come to power, such as in the Libertarian camp, the current situation in America is primarily related to parties that support a