When a You Becomes an It Women are far too often torn to shreds, their personalities, their minds, and their bodies. The Handmaid’s Tale takes women, splits them a part, and pulls out their control, leaving the remains to be seen as an object. Throughout The Handmaid’s Tale, Margert Atwood satirizes the body of women in order to illustrate the notion that all they are, is an it. The Handmaid’s were once considered “an instrument,” in which they played a tune of good nature and choice (Atwood 73). They had everything of their own, they were no one’s property, no one’s birthing vessel. In the present, however, the women’s vaginas are the utmost importance of the Gilead society, as even the doctor “deals with a torso only” (Atwood 60). Offred,
