The Handmaid's Tale

A dystopian world of sexual revolution where women are subjected to just be baby-making machines other than be more than what they can actually be. 
It is definitely Margaret Atwood's vision of a feminist's nightmare. 
Offred, a handmaiden in the Republic of Gilead, tells her story filled with flashbacks of her in the past before the world she knew and loved once changed for the worst. In her past life, she had an affair with a married man, Luke then he got a divorce and married her and had a daughter together. Gradually time flew by when the chemicals and pollution caught up to society that fertility rates went down. To avoid the catastrophe of being extinct, a new government arose from the ashes and put a tight leash on Women's rights. The only status a woman were given were either to be Wives, Econwives, Marthas, Unwomen, Jezebels or like Offred a handmaiden. Handmaidens were sent to the Red Center to be taught by Aunts to realize their duty is to serve under Commanders and to bear them a child, nothing more nothing less.
Offred is on her third house, her last shot into being impregnated to avoid being an "unwoman" where they are sent to do hard labour 'till they are of no use and die. She serves under a Commander who is nothing but power hungry and is very ostentatious. The Commander's wife, Serena Joy, a name that which she isn't lived up to. Serena Joy hates Offred the minute she knew of her coming and despises her because she must subject to her husband basically making love to the handmaiden right under her nose--Literally. Offred on the other hand doesn't enjoy this at all, what Offred wanted and still wants is her freedom. Freedom to read, to write, to feel, and be a woman of her choosing. A society filled with restrictions and status that she resides in cannot offer any bit of it, it's do or die. 

The White Plague...

In the book Blindness by Jose Saramago, at first found it very difficult to read; I mean you're so use to names instead of titles and quotations instead of no quotations. But I now get that the blind couldn't really put a name to face because they can't see it. It didn't have quotations because they are putting voices to titles to differentiate people. Though I find it difficult to get how the moral of it all was, but I least got out of it a good read. Also, I believe it shows how people are really like if they know that no one can see them--consenual or nonconsenual sex in public, nudity to wearing less clothing, stealing, dancing in the rain, taking a dump here and there with no shame or even picking your own nose.

There are a lot of things that happens behind close doors or when the curtains close. Humanity in us can be taken from us, and when it is taken, we all be tested our very souls. In those times it is that pain that will allow people to look inside themselves. They reflect and see who they are and that one person will be the only one to see it all.