Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to.

Now you are being given freedom from.

Don't underrate it" (Atwood, 24)

To live in a country such as Canada is a great privilege. Although there are countless reasons for this statement, the liberties that all Canadians are entitled to, as declared and described in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, make Canada an envied and highly respected country internationally. However, it seems extremely unrealistic to imagine these rights being extirpated from Canadian society. In reading Margaret Atwood's, "The Handmaid's Tale", it is discovered that the revocation of these entitlements would cause a dystopian society. The principle flaw in Atwood's Gileadian society, is the justification of human rights violations. This is achieved through the misuse of the concept of "freedom from." This statement of...