Ayesha Mushtaq2025-11-202025-11-202021https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/11180The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a feminist novel that highlights the issues of female fertility, and emphasizing them from a feminist as well as colonial point of view. The novel is set in a dystopian fictional society in the 1980s, a society where the issue of female fertility is concerning. Since the issue discussed in the novel is slightly realistic, the question arises whether or not such a situation may occur in the future, or even near future. Which makes one wonder if a similar situation is even possible. The issue in the novel is that the women of higher class were unable to give birth, so they enslaved women who were already mothers and used them as forced surrogates. By using Qualitative method, the primary text taken is “The Handmaid’s Tale” which will provide the quality for the information for this thesis, and secondly, doctors (gynecologists) will be consulted to see if they think this infertility would get so common that this point could come in future. Surrogacy is very common in the people of elite class. Hence, the aim of this research is to analyze whether this is a possibility for the future or whether Margaret Atwood’s novel is merely just a work of fiction. The biblical concept of the Handmaids is also kept under consideration since the same concept is being used. The high class is even able to buy a woman for fertility. Would society accept this and make it a tradition? Or would it just remain a fad practiced by the elite? Some Christians would also be consulted, for the Biblical information regarding women as a breeding tool and if the puritan’s lied about this? Whether buying women is allowed in Christianity or not? And Is it actually written in the Bible?enThesis