Atwood’s story highlights two aspects of human nature and experience: our tendency to think "this will not happen to me" and the issue of "the more things change, the more they stay the same." How does The Handmaid’s Tale illustrate the above?

As a dystopian novel

Explanation:

A dystopian novel is a story of a society that clearly is in contradiction to the author´s ethos, such as mass poverty, a police state or oppression. Dystopian literature provides a fresh perspective on real-life problems in real societies that claim to be ethical. In The Handmaid´s Tale the main character has to endure many ordeals - this will not happen to me - and finds out that she is a puppet in a play that only allows for insignificant changes.

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