An Alarming Aggregate Successful satires display a logical and relatable society and suggest a need for modifications. Often satire employs humor, irony, and blatant mockery, which clarifies the broken state of society it is written to parallel. With inspiration from Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood writes The Handmaid’s Tale using these tactics to warn the society in which she lives. She creates a negative utopia informing Americans of the possible implications of their actions and ideals. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale displays the horrifying results of a society that oppresses women, feuds over Religious differences, and does not equally represent citizens to indicate American society’s harmful trends and suggests the need for urgent change. Margaret Atwood displays women’s oppression in current society through the Republic of Gilead, a negative utopia which bases its governing law in the Old Testament of the Bible. The conservative society lays under “the Eyes of God” (Atwood 193) and gives little rights to women of …show more content…
Today, money is power and the top 2% of America holds more wealth than the rest of the population. Thus, a small fraction of the United States is controlled by wealthy citizens. As a metaphor for the working class, the handmaids are necessary for a working society but are highly enslaved into American industry. The handmaid, a “nondescript woman in red...walks demurely, head down, red gloved” (Atwood 19) on the streets. The color red acts as a symbol of power and is also an allusion to German prisoners of war. The handmaids are prisoners in the cast system in the same way the lower and middle class in America is a prisoner to the American government and the top 2%. Atwood displays a need for change in big government and highly divided economic