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Early in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, Offred says, after having seen a group of Japanese women wearing short skirts, rather than the typical, compulsory dress of Gilead: We are fascinated, but also repelled. They seem undressed. It has taken so little time to change our minds about things like this This illustrates how the minds of the population have been manipulated to make them comply with the Government’s views. Like in most totalitarian societies, the Gilead Government uses propaganda to manipulate the people’s minds into following their ideologies and supporting the government. The propaganda methods depicted in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ are also similar to those used in totalitarian governments of this century. Propaganda in the novel concentrates mainly on women, as they are the elements of society that have lost the most due to the establishment of the new government and they must therefore be controlled and convinced the most. I will now examine some of the methods of propaganda used to persuade women, and try to explain their purposes and effects. The Gilead society is based on one of the many possible interpretations of the biblical philosophy. The bible being a very respected, trusted and followed