"The Handmaid's Tale" is a future novel. It discusses many issues, such as fertility, environmental pollution, and human rights. There is no topic that cannot arouse our vigilance. In fact, The Handmaid's Tale is not even close to us. Not far away?

1. Protagonist Joan

The protagonist Joan was originally a woman with a beautiful family. However, due to the chaos of the regime and the establishment of the Kingdom of Gilead, she had to die because of her fertility. Taken away to become a procreator in the service of a superior being, her sole purpose of existence is procreation. Whenever the protagonist enters a new family, she has to change her name by adding "of" in front of her name and her new owner's name at the end, because this represents affiliation in English. When having sexual intercourse with their new master, they cannot make any sound. The wife must sit on the bed and hold his hands. When giving birth to a child, the wife of this family will also pretend to be a wife downstairs with a bunch of bishops' wives. After giving birth to a child, the child born by the maid is finally brought to the lady. The heroine Joan tries her best to contact her husband from another country and tries her best to run away from such a family? This is The Handmaid's Tale.

2. Every part of The Handmaid’s Tale comes from real history

In the story, the protagonist Joan loses her name, which corresponds to the fact that Western women will lose their name after marriage. My surname is called Mrs. So-and-so. In the world of handmaids, why are these women used as resources? Because the ability to have children is disappearing day by day. Why the ability to have children is disappearing day by day, not only because of women, but also because men’s sperm are very weak. The main reason is because of the existence of environmental pollution in modern society. Why does the bishop's wife pretend to be the mother of this child and pretend that she has gone through all the fertility processes? Because she has lost her fertility. Except for specific ritual needs, she is also dissatisfied with the protagonist Joan, because she knows deep down in her heart Joan is a mistress.

3. Warning from the Handmaid

As the fertility rate is declining, what kind of policy changes will the country make to save the fertility rate? Will patriarchal society completely collapse, or will it go to the extreme? This is what The Handmaid’s Tale brings us to think about. When reproductive resources are precious enough and everyone wants to leave their own offspring, will it enhance the status of women, or completely objectify women?