After reading the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, I think the whole book shows a feminist dystopia, different from radical feminists. Since the balance of power between men and women is the main theme of this novel, Atwood forcefully critiques patriarchal society by describing the suffering of the Handmaids. In this society, lower class women are deprived of their social status, completely becoming baby-making tools for upper class men. Furthermore, they are deprived of all their property and their human rights, even their emotions as human beings. In Atwood's novel, the author shows us great concern about social prejudice against women. Due to the balance of power between men and women in this society, women are assigned their own function: servants are tools for making babies; Wives are used only for ceremonial purposes, and Jezebels are prostitutes and entertainers, available only to upper-class men and their guests. The servants have only one function: to give children to the wives, which is the only reason for their survival. In the eyes of the ruling class of Gilead, the Handmaids are not human. However, they are also important in society because they can bear children. According to the book, Gilead adopted a passage from the Bible to justify the behavior of using handmaids to bear children for wives: It's the usual story, the usual stories. God for Adam, God for Noah. Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth. Next came Rachel and Leah's musty old stuff that we had hammered into the Center. Give me children, otherwise I die. Am I in the place of God, who refused you the fruit of the womb? This is my servant Bilhah. She will carry on my lap, so that I can also have children... middle of paper ....... Since wives do not have the capacity to have a baby, they ask the maids to sleep once with their husband. one month to carry a baby. Their husbands cannot see the maids except during the monthly ceremony. Because the husband cannot kiss or touch the maids when they are having sex, the husbands go to nightclubs to flirt with the Jezebels. In this society, women each have a function and become victims of patriarchal power. Once we no longer address the issue of gender relations, what will be the situation of human society as a whole? In The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood puts this worry into her feminist dystopia, a real nightmare. Although the sufferings that everyone undertakes in the novel will not occur in the real world, the novel designs a unique and horrific social panorama, exaggerating and amplifying the tension between the sexes in the real world, containing criticism of reality..