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In the Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood coveys the idea that oppressive systems dehumanize everyone within them. While women like Offred suffer under Gileads austere regime, even those in power, such as the commander, are trapped by the very system they created. This has been reflected through documented cases of German soldiers and officers who served under the Nazi regime, but later expressed authentic remorse or moral conflict over their participation in the persecution of civilians.

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is centered around an authoritarian theocratic government where hate and fear is used to amplify extreme ideological beliefs. As a consequence, people lose individuality and freedom and only have the government to look up to. This parallels to the Nazi Regime and how even an unpopular movement can gain steam through nationalism allowing for subjugation and inhuman treatment for everyone consequences of theocracy and fascism

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Through the Republic of Gilead in The Handmaid's Tale, author Margaret Atwood depicts fascism as a combination of totalitarianism and traditionalism, manifested as an oligarchical, Christofascist patriarchy. In the context of present-day, profoundly fascistic American society, this characterization reflects the cultural conditions which created the ideology and infrastructure currently used to uphold fascism, though Atwood’s effective omission of race leaves the racialized nationalism evident in modern U.S. fascism largely omitted from this reflection.

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In the book The Handmaids tale, Margaret Atwood develops the idea that mental fear and symbolical threats can be used as a method of maintaining power, just as physical control and violence can, especially when in relation to the oppression of women. This idea is demonstrated through the novel's references and comparisons to the way Nazi Germany utilized terror and intimidation to maintain power and keep minority groups like women weakened socially and politically.

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In The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood conveys the restrictive nature present in extremist societies, depriving women of their basic rights. Throughout the novel, Atwood draws parallels to the rights of women in the U.S., specifically being restricted from gaining an education, their lack of economic power in the past, and recent debate over reproductive freedom.

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Throughout The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood presents a world that intensifies the idea of religion being used as a device to control the people of Gilead to show the dangers it can present when taken to an extreme. This relates to the modern day US in how religion is used as a political driver, presenting itself to be the correct moral standing for decisions like laws against abortion and the LGBTQ.

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In The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood discusses social media as both a source of desperation and an escape from it. This is described through magazines as an escape, while political mass media was described as hard to find and dangerous. In current society, there are similarities in both areas, with political mass media being biased and not always telling the whole truth, and digital social media being the biggest escape for young people.

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In the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Atwood suggests that governmental oppression of the media is a key step in the process of taking away the rights of a society as a whole. This can be witnessed within the current national and political events of today. Namely, the temporary suspension of The Jimmy Kimmel Show after his political comments has raised questions about the true nature of free speech in the United States today, which draws parallels to the society of Gilead and the trajectory that the United States appears to be headed on.

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In the novel “The Handmaid's Tale”, Margaret Atwood’s work contrasts current events with those in her dystopian setting, showing the erosion of women's rights and the rise of fascism in society. She allows us to see what happens when women lose their rights and are viewed as devices rather than human beings. These are scarily parallel to extremist ideology taking hold, as demonstrated through ongoing debates over reproductive rights and gender equality.

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In The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, the Gilead regime uses manipulation of faith to have control over its people. There are similarities to this regime, seen through the Nazi's in the 1930s. By using parallels to real life, she emphasizes how real the Gilead regime can be in this fictional novel.

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In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood demonstrates the rapid rise of Gilead’s control, extreme ideology, and strict censorship to parallel that of real-life fascist regimes such as Nazi Germany. By doing so, Atwood warns readers of how quickly these regimes can form, gain power, and manipulate people's beliefs and thoughts.

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The novel The Handmaid's Tale is centered around the dystopian society of Gilead, which portrays how religious and puritanical principles can result in totalitarian governments willing to oppress and dehumanize individuals to push a flawed agenda. Though limited, the protagonist Offred's perspective provides insight on how Gileadean doctrines, as a parallel to the impact English puritan settlers had in American colonies, have affected women as their individuality and rights have been suppressed.

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Atwood writes the The Handmaid's Tale in order to warn readers about how the abuse of political power in the hands of extremists or misogynists can cause the freedom and natural rights of women to be taken away. Through the dystopian portrayal of Gilead, the author urges readers to fight against oppressive policies, such as abortion bans, before all rights are suppressed.

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In the novel Handmaid's Tale, Atwood conveys the message that religion may be weaponized to influence politics, consequently suppressing individual rights and freedoms. Similar themes of using religion to justify political decisions are demonstrated in today's society through abortion bans and restrictions on free speech.

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In the book The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood explores ideas of how oppression leads to a totalitarian style government. In the book women are forced into certain gender roles and restricted of their reproductive rights similarly to how enslaved women in the US were restricted rights even through the 1920s, after slavery was abolished.

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In The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood conveys the theme that when there is established gender dominance in a society, one often feels the need to find ways to seek independence and autonomy in order to steer away from societal expectations and feel that they are more than just a person controlled by a hierarchy. This theme is parallel to my own personal history, as seen through my experiences as a girl playing a heavily male-dominant sport throughout the past 10 years of her life.

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In Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood conveys the message that having knowledge gives you the power to resist oppression. This is illustrated now through the rise in totalitarianism and the decrease in critical thinking and literacy due to the prevalence of social media and an increased usage of AI.

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In Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale, Atwood demonstrates how an authoritarian government with radical religious views marginalizes and alienates citizens, stripping them of a vast number of freedoms per their radical beliefs. Parallels can be drawn to the Islamic revolution in Iran in which the government marginalized women and took away lots of their fundamental rights such as the freedoms to work and study in certain fields and to hold public office.

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Atwood's Handmaid's Tale portrays the unsettling and problematic traditions of a Gilead society, while also revealing the teetering path of our current society with the objectification of women's bodies and identities, and the abiding effects of bystander syndrome, ultimately allowing absolute power over the lives of those trapped in this dystopian civilization. Many similar events in our world today expose the abuse of power amongst those in our government and the influence of coercion into religious prejudice and sexual violence.

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In the novel "Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood, she reveals the themes of loss of freedom, self-worth, and power by showing how facist regimes rely on a multitude resctrictions that limit the freedoms, self-worth and power, as well as showing oppression of the handmaids are as they are treated poorly by higher-ranking officials and how having power can affect someone, as they show sympathy and remorse for people lower in the hierarchy. Attwood reveals the themes as characters in the book are faced with situations where they go back in forth in a tentative manner, deciding on what to do, uncertain of the consequences that may happen, as well as the themes are present when the Handmaids are being treated by more powerful, high-ranking members of Gilead. Many parallels can be seen in this novel, as well as the encampment of Jews in Europe and the Japanese encampments in the U.S. during WW2.

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In the book The Handmaids tale, Margaret Atwood develops the idea that mental fear and symbolical threats can be used as a method of maintaining power, just as physical control and violence can, especially when in relation to the oppression of women. This idea is demonstrated through the novel's references and comparisons to the way Nazi Germany utilized terror and intimidation to maintain power and keep minority groups like women weakened socially and politically.

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In the "Handmaid's Tale," Margret Atwood communicates religion as something that can drive opinions, ideas, and even people to do things so extreme it destroys freedom and individuality. There are many parallels from this message in American politics and throughout the world. This is reflected in how our current president is backed by many people who have very conservative or Anglican beliefs which in turn has changed the policies effecting the rights and freedoms of American citizens.

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In the novel The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood’s work can reflect onto current events in the way it shows the erosion of women's rights and the rise of fascism in society. In the book, it’s demonstrated through women losing their rights and being seen more as devices than human beings, while in current events, this can be seen in ongoing debates over reproductive rights and gender equality.

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In Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale," Atwood demonstrates the dangers of a theocracy as the blurred lines between religion and government cause the corruption of beliefs that lead to the oppression of marginalized groups, or more specifically, women. This theme has become increasingly relevant today, as religion has been gradually incorporated into American politics to limit the reproductive rights of women.

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In the novel Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood establishes a central idea by linking Handmaid's Tale to women's rights. Throughout the novel it is clear that the women were oppressed over their bodies, education, or overall power, which is a parallel to what women fought against for the women's rights movement. Atwood uses the central idea to highlight the importance of women empowerment.

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In the Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood creates a dystopian world centered around the rise of the ultraconservative nation of Gilead to convey that fanaticism and extremism arise from moments of instability, which leads to a vacuum that tends to be filled by extremists with unrealistic goals only achievable by an accompanying depletion of human morals. Historical parallels can be drawn through the circumstances surrounding the rise of fascism and communism in the early-mid 20th century and Islamic extremists in the Middle East, alongside the actions of these regimes.

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Atwood writes The Handmaid's Tale in order to warn readers about how the abuse of political power in the hands of extremists or misogynists can cause freedom and natural rights of women to be taken away. She mirrors the current political climate of the United States, as women's constitutional abortion rights no longer exist, with Gilead as a dystopian society of controlled handmaids to encourage and provoke readers to fight against unfair policies before all rights are suppressed.

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In The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic but authoritarian nature of the Gileadean regime reflects how religion can be twisted to fuel and justify hatred and oppression against others. This theme is easily visible in the current world, from the individual level to the international level, in which religion is used to justify war and hate crimes.

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In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood portrays a dystopian society where extreme political and religious ideologies strip women of their autonomy and identity. This narrative serves as a cautionary tale, reflecting contemporary challenges to women's rights and bodily autonomy, such as recent legislative efforts to restrict reproductive healthcare and policies undermining gender identity recognition.

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Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale" demonstrates how the use of divisive religion can aid a nation's descent into fascism. Current events, such as the correlation between the U.S. government's shift towards evangelical Christian values and proletariat censorship parallel Atwood's work.

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The Handmaid's Tale's theme of governmental oppression can be witnessed within the current national and political events of today. Namely, the temporary suspension of The Jimmy Kimmel Show after his political comments has raised questions about the true nature of free speech in the United States today, which draws parallels to the society of Gilead and the trajectory that the United States appears to be headed on.

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood has many references to historical events relating to the consequences of theocracy and fascism through the perspective of a women when they are treated as objects and not human. Many analogous themes can be found in the past when theocracy allowed for subjugation and inhuman treatment of women through religious ideas and punishment

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In the Handmaid's Tale, the success of the Gileadean regime demonstrates that when a government holds considerable power or influence, it has the ability to silence any and all opposition to the institution regardless of whether it is a minority or majority. Many parallels can be drawn between the events in this story and the modern day, both in American politics and around the world.