The Handmaid's Tale Summary

In the beginning God created life, animals, trees, and man. From the dust man was taken, and with God’s breathe of life, his soul awaken. Adam once with life, was given a task, it was to count and name the animals. But as Adam counted and named the animals, he saw that in pairs they came. Lonely, without a companion he started to feel. God saw this and he put Adam to sleep, from him he took a rib and from this created life, a woman for him. And Adam was no longer lonely, a faithful companion he had now. Flesh, from his flesh, & one body they were. A woman is called a wo-man because for man it came. A woman loved so much by a man, with time and marriage turns into his wife. A spouse is a life partner, a mate, who loves his man and a blessing she is, but there are those who are blinded and see it as a curse.
In this tale a merchant says how a wife is a blessing, and praises wives, although in reality he feels the total opposite of what he says. Of just being married to month, sorrow and despair that’s unto what he kneels, he regrets getting married, and hates his wife that’s all he feels. Although when he speaks good words of wives he says, as in the tale he quotes: “Woman is man's helper, his respite, his paradise on earth and his delight”. He explains how he desires a young spouse, and says how he wouldn’t want an old one. On the tale he says: “I will not have a wife who's old, no way”. He does not want an old wife so much that he even says if he had one he’d be unfaithful: “If I had such misfortune to the measure. That in her I could not take any pleasure, I'd live on so adulterous a level. That when I die I'd go straight to the devil.” Here he explains how he’d be so unfaithful he would go not just to hell, but straight to the devil, and it really depicts how much he detests an old