Several conflicts are presented in The Handmaid’s Tale. The United States of America, where women were given freedom and allowed to do as they pleased, is taken over by a coup and turned into a totalitarian country called Gilead. Women have been reduced to being handmaids, where they become sex slaves and used only for the production of babies.
Another conflict is Offred’s struggle for freedom and happiness in a totalitarian state. She often flashes back to the past, where she was with her husband and daughter and when women were free, during the novel.
