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Handmaids in Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" serve the function of bearing children for high-ranking individuals in a dystopian society where fertility rates have drastically declined. They are essentially treated as vessels for reproduction and have little to no agency over their own bodies or lives.

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