The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
“We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” “I believe you into being… I tell, therefore you are.” Described as a dystopian novel by the critics and as speculative fiction by its author, this well-known controversial novel acts as a cautionary tale; Margaret Atwood’s only rule while writing it and later making the series was: “not [to] include anything that human beings had not already done in some other place or time, or for which the technology did not already exist”. All the unimaginable things that happen in this tale have precedents in history: the Indian system of castes, religious fundamentalism, the Berlin wall, human trafficking, Puritanism, dictatorships, civil wars, the Internet... you name it. Plenty of reasons to be afraid; our way of living could easily end in a suffocating and puritan Republic such as Gilead, justifying its actions in any given tale. Be aware, stop ignoring, let’s change our story/history, let’s give i...