Handy Maid

I believe that Atwood is mostly anti-authoritarian in her writing of this novel. She warns of the endless horrific possibilities that such a totalitarian regime can bring. The author also predicted the plummeting birth rates of our society. We will soon dip below the 2.1 birthrate that keeps the world population steady. But I think that this could be a good thing. Our world is already overpopulated and if it gets past a certain point the earth will not able to support everyone: either some will die, or everyone will die as a result of making our planet inhospitable. I like how Atwood also made it so clear that any crazy person can justify their actions by using the bible. Any tyrant can say that he is the hand of god, but most of the time when this happens, the tyrant in question far from godly.