Thoughts and feelings (No prayers)

 This is my second post for the year, as I promised I'd write more this year. Book review (with spoilers): The Testaments by Margaret Atwood The Testaments is the sequel to Atwood's most popular novel, The Handmaid's Tale. It is set in a future society in the USA , Gilead, where men rule society and women are treated as lower-class citizens and breeders. In the Handmaid's Tale, Atwood introduces Gilead and focuses on a young woman, Offred, showing how handmaids like her live in Gilead. In the Testaments, we get a look at how the powerful can use a select few of the powerless to further their agenda. We also see how iconography and propaganda can be used by the powerful to keep the powerless silent. Even in such a patriachal society, there exist powerful women like Aunt Lydia, or the author of The Ardua Hall Holograph. She is the leader of the Aunts in Gilead, which is a group of women who have more power and rights than other women in Gilead, but still less rights than ...