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A few themes that were prevalent were isolation v community and emotional needs. It is scary to think of how separated people were in the urban/suburban area that they could not come together to resist the overthrow of the government. Also it was eerie how the government tried to manufacture ways to meet the emotional needs of people. The ceremonies, state religion, and control of communication made it difficult for the people to know what was real and what was going on.
In many ways the book was similar to Animal Farm, 1984, and Anthem. It made it seem more realistic to happen through the flashbacks to how things were before and the detailed description of the transition from our current reality to the dystopia of the book. Atwood used a lot of symbolism especially with color. The red of the Handmaids for fertility, the blue for the Wives for purity, green for Marthas and their jealousy of the other women, black for the Commanders and their evil control over the women, and Econowives multicolored because they had a diverse background.
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