1. Psychological Effects of the Enslavement of Women And the Role that it Plays in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

2. The Handmaid’s tale By Margaret Atwood

3. Sex Trafficking of women Women in Atwood’s novel can be compared to the women in the sex slave industry. They can be kept like criminals and herded like cattle as those in Atwood’s novel were.

4. Millions of people Abused Millions of people fall prey to traffickers every year. Women and children are used mostly in the sex trade.

5. Psychological Trauma The trauma that these women endure can be harmful physically, mentally and emotionally.

6. Consequences can be… Depression Anger Rage Drug dependence PTSD Suicide

7. Choices Atwood’s novel is all about choices. They all made choices from submission to prostitution to suicide. Any of the choices that they could have made still left them hopeless and enslaved.

8. Optimism is key to the future As long as people question the things around them there is hope for our future of freedom.