"It has taken so little time to change our minds about things like this"
This quote from the Handmaids Tale by Margaret Attwood represents how quickly their society has changed. From woman wearing knee length skirts, high heels, and red lipstick to becoming a thing used for just reproducing. Taking walks to keep their stomach muscles stretched for when they're pregnant and being only used for that.
The quote also emphasizes how fast this change has occurred, not just a little change but drastic. From being an independent woman to being a resource. And realizing that staying silent, and doing as told led to this; even made the process go faster because no one questioned the actions. It also represents the fear, that if this drastic dehumanization has occurred in this little amount of time what other corruption will occur? How far will they go? And how much of themselves as people, as humans with souls will be taken away from them until they stop? if they ever would stop.
This quote also ties in with how the angels hand pick the guards and give them guns. In this Dystopia what makes it so extreme is how Margaret Attwood uses the bigger power, "God" and his followers in heaven, the "angels" as the ones who create the destruction. The dystopia manipulates mother nature, our basic reason of life, to produce; and turns it into a job, but not only a job, but manipulates the whole concept of a woman becoming a mother, to a woman being a tool for men, to get the job done. Dehumanizing the woman to such extremes that she has no thought process, not say in anything. Just the title, her only identity, of being a "Handmaid"
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