The Handmaiden's Tale (Not the TV Series)

Recently, I came across to a TV series with the same title. When I did my research it seems that it’s based on the novel. I am yet to start watching it. But first, I want to talk about the book which I read 7 years ago.

If you have read the classic The Brave New World. This book is more like that. It’s a society totally controlled by a governing body. Since birth everyone is already classified to their social status. In the hand maiden's tale, it’s a story of transition to the world we know to a complete different world where men rule and control things and women are being classified with the color of clothing they wear. The wives wear blue and the hand maidens wear red. What are the hand maidens? The hand maidens are the surrogate wives. In the event that the wives cannot conceive a child a hand maiden is required. However, it is not simple as injecting the egg and sperm of her master and mistress. The process is the hand maiden will be in between the wife and husband while they have sex, it’s like a three-some if you think about it. The husband doesn't mingle with the hand maiden. And if a hand maiden is pregnant she is the envy of all hand maidens. The book is somewhat a diary of one of the hand maidens and her narration is when she remembered a society where she had a husband and a child of her own before the twisted society has been made. It is a wonderful and sad story about a culture being run by tyrant men who would want to control their women. And the women's struggle for freedom. It is a wonderful and intriguing story that would match the literary classic of the Brave New World.

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