"The Handmaids Tale" by Margaret Atwood - exploring the limitations imposed by gender, power and religion

Task: In the text The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood explores the limitations imposed by gender, power and religion. Discuss. In Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Atwood explores the limitations of society imposed by gender, power and religion. In the book, the male species is the dominant gender. The have a lot less restrictions, and many more freedoms. In one way they have the ultimate power, but in another, the females are in control. Power is divided …

…their social lives, their possessions, and even the way they dress. These strict laws are based around what sex you are, how much power you are obliged to, and every aspect of religion and the bible. In The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood makes gender, power and religion an obvious issue and cause of the Gilead society. She does this by displaying and limitations set by these things, and portrays their lives as extremely tough, and restricted.