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A 3 page paper which examines how the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood could be a religious dictatorship seen in the future of the United States. The paper examines what such a future would be like. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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but yet possesses many realities that point to weaknesses already present in our society. In this story we see religion becoming the primary focus of how people live, and more
importantly, how they reproduce. The following paper examines the possibility of the future of the United States being a future that is religiously fanatic, a society that is ruled by
a religious dictatorship that focuses on being fruitful and perpetuating mankind. The Handmaids Tale and the Future Today, in our society, there is a great deal of
religious and secular tensions involving religious freedoms and the existence of religion in society. There seem to be more and more individuals who are pressuring the nation to exclude, or
not allow, religion in any government office and to not allow religion to play a part in any required social institution such as schools and offices. However, at the same
time the citizens of the United States will not elect a President who is not religious. They would not elect a President who claimed they did not believe in God.
This nation was founded on religion and religious ideals and as such they are perhaps merely lying under the surface, ready to explode. Religion or religious institutions and individuals
hold much power today. One author notes that the novel of Atwoods specifically seems to target "fundamentalist Protestants in America, sometimes known as the Christian right because of their conservative
views on social issues such as abortion, womens rights and gay rights" (NovelGuide). Atwood wrote this novel when Reagan was President which was a time when religious ideals and power
were growing (NovelGuide). The emergence of such realities in the United States, indicates that there is a very powerful, if underlying, strength possessed by the religious believers in the nation.
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