In Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood writes about a dystopia society. Atwood used situations that were happening at the time she began writing her novel, for example women's rights, politics, and religious aspects. Atwood's novel is relevant to contemporary society. There are similarities between Atwood's novel and our society today, suggesting that our modern society may be moving towards a less intense version of this dystopian society. In the novel, Atwood writes about how Offred, the main character, transitions from her previous life to a Handmaid. Offred was not her real name but the name given to her during the formation of the Gilead Society. Before the formation of Gilead, Offred lived with her husband and daughter. Offred and her husband worked and had a social life. Offred had not realized what was happening at the time of Gilead's formation, her bank account was frozen and only men had access to the accounts; women were fired from their jobs. Offred's husband was shot, her daughter was taken away, and she was imprisoned to be re-educated as a servant. Just like us, we live our lives day by day: we get up, go to work, take care of the children, our husband and lead a social life. We tend to lose sight of what is happening in our government, call it ignorance. Not all of us are aware of what is happening in our government, but the majority of us; like Offred ignoring any impulse to resist the increasingly repressive actions that led to the coup that sparked Gilead. We too ignore the actions that are happening or have happened in our society, for example the health insurance problems that are currently occurring. Many of us don't know what it really is; we accept what we are told and choose to trust middle of paper......k then'(27) As Offred's story unfolds, she becomes harsher towards her life anterior. “We lived,” she said, “in ignorance. Ignoring is not the same as ignorance; you have to work on it. …We have lived in the gaps between stories” (53) There are similarities between the society of Gilead and our society today, suggesting that our modern society may be moving toward a less intense version of this dystopian society. Today things have changed in society, women have more rights, we can vote now and in the United States women can run for political office, and one woman ran for vice-president. presidency in one of our recent elections. Are we moving towards a less intense version, maybe just in other ways, not so much with women's rights here in the United States, but maybe in other ways, like in politics; be willful ignorance on our part. Works Cited The Handmaid's Tale