handmaid's tale was published in 1985 when many conservative groups attacked the gang made by the 2nd movement.

By limiting occurrences to events that had already occurred in our own history, Atwood emphasizes the drama and intensity of the story. If these events already happened, they could happen again - perhaps even with consequences rivaling those in the book. It's hard to argue with history, as opposed to speculative events that seem far-fetched and unlikely.

Atwood is saying that these horrific events could happen again today.

I think that the real historic events that Margaret Atwood used to create her dystopic future still exist, and that's what makes them relevant to us until today. Not necessarily the events are happening in the exactly same way, but the simbology of some of them is the same. Today, we don't have slave women that are used to give birth to heirs of rich and powerful families, but we have poor women dying without the opportunity to do a legal abortion. Both situations are examples of how women don't have control over their own bodies. Today, we were supposed to live in a laic state in Brazil, for example, but everyday we hear stories of people that live under control or influence from religious institutions. I believe that Margaret Atwood picked real situations of life and took them to the extreme to open our eyes to the kind of society we are living in.

These events are still relevant today because people are still being oppressed.
By limiting the events in the book to real occurrences she showed people that these things have happened and by doing so she warns the people to make sure that history does not repeat itself.

People are not free to make their own decisions in life, the government chooses them.
The government in control is often oppressive An oppressive government is often authoritarian, has constant vigilance over its people, creates curfews, has military control and suppresses its people.
The scenario is often futuristic or in a fictional universe. The scenario is usually in the future, or in a fictional universe, after a massive war or catastrophe. This helps explain the different structure of society and justifies the power of government.

By setting the Handmaid's Tale in 1985, Atwood really highlights the ideas of civil rights and equality, because this is something that was going on at the time. Atwood only used historic events and this tells readers that what she writes about is entirely possible in the future again.

I feel as if it is a warning that similar things could happen in the future.

How good?

So good

I don’t see the dystopia in this novel

The Dystopian elements of the Handmaids Tale is still relevant today because there is a possibility that this has happened somewhere. Margaret Atwood said she drew these from actual global events to create the world of Gilead.I feel like some events today are similar to dystopian ideas from the novel because men sometimes use women for their benefit. I feel like they control women as if they are the slave. Men even make their decisions when they shouldn’t. This is similar to the dystopian society because women don’t have a choice to make their own decisions and are being used for their bodies.

The Dystopian elements are relevant to how society is in the sense of how men see women; and depict certain things about them before anything else. Women also not being on a certain level in the eyes of men, also women joined in unison in groups due to the fact that most of the time they have to protect each other from men out there that have this ideology that they are inferior to them. These are all characteristics the people in gilead have to deal with.

The handmaids tale is based on a new type of government that controls everyone one. Women are sorted by their past mistakes. Barren women have handmaids to bear children for them. Woman are basically slaves to them. This is all still relevant to now because this could happen in the future

Perheaps because fear is not limited by the time. In addition, there are still opposite movements against femenist movement, which could recall to people the danger. As long as it is a warning against a possible future danger, and as we are iin the furure from the time of this story, we can be afraid to repruduce the errors made in this book.

the dystopian elements in the handmaids tale are showing that what has happened in the past could easily happen today again