Our Own Dystopia: How The Handmaid’s Tale Opens our Eyes to the Brutal Realities of our World

Oh to imagine a world where women have no rights, where women are sexually abused on a regular basis, or where no one can speak up against all the wrong in society. But is that reality really far fetched?  In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood depicts a horrendous alternate reality which shakes every person to their core. The book and the show are situated in a post-civil war United...