The Handmaids Tale as a Feminist Dystopian Work - Book Report/Review Example

The story is a narration of Offred, who has had to leave her husband and child to bear the child of the elite. It entails how she needs to sacrifice her desires and want to be pure for Commander Fred (elite for whom she needs to bear the child). There is a sense of despair in the story and the main theme is the sacrifices that the young ladies need to make to be able to bear children for elite women who are infertile. The book has a disjoint and unfinished ending of how Offred is taken away in the Eye van.

The overall theme of the story is how young women were made to give up their families and children to act as surrogate mothers for the elite and how these ladies have needed to give up on all desires, and wants of a normal life. The only happiness that they are permitted is the joy of shopping with other handmaids. The story is an open crude truth of what the handmaids go through each day of their lives and how much they give up for unknown people for the fear of being killed.