The Handmaid´s Tale en el Club de Lectura de Inglés

 "Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from".

Anti-utopian or dystopian novel; science fiction, feminist political novel, The Handmaid’s Tale is a study of an ordinary, non-heroic person’s response to severe repression. Within the ruthless, totalitarian state of Gilead, the characters, especially women, have lost their freedom and lead miserable lives.  Artificial insemination and fertility clinics are considered as irreligious but surrogate mothers are legitimated and enforced by biblical precedents. 

 

Offred, maintains her autonomy as an individual in preserving her interior life, her thoughts and feelings against the totalitarian politics of Gilead.  

“In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objetcs”.  The book tell us about the irrepressible force of human desire, power and fear,  passivity or the active resistance,   gratitude,  revenge,  betray… The Handmaid’s Tale argues that passive, and even invisible acts of rebellion have their own value, and deserve to be celebrated.

 

“Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are new compensations”.