The Handmaids tale, written by Canadian author, Margaret Atwood is directed towards females for the target audience. This is evident throughout the article especially, after hearing her personal opinion when she was asked the question whether her book was a feminist novel. Atwood replied "If you mean an ideological tract in which all women are angels and/or so victimized they are incapable of moral choice, no. If you mean a novel in which women are human beings — with all the variety of character and behavior that implies — and are also interesting and important, and what happens to them is crucial to the theme, structure and plot of the book, then yes" The main message that the author is trying to conceive is that women also have significance
