However, this establishes an underclass in Utopia, and its citizens exploit the hard-working slaves. The slaughtering of livestock and cleaning of carcasses is done by slaves. They dont let ordinary people get used to cutting up animalsit tends to destroy one's natural feelings of humanity, here More disregards the slaves' feelings of humanity. It is clear that the social elites, the ordinary people exploit this underclass.
One could argue that the slaves in Utopia are not to be considered as Utopians' because they include condemned criminals from other countries, working-class foreigners and Utopian convicts. However, since there is the possibility that a Utopian citizen can become a slave, it reinforces the establishment of the underclass. A contemporary analogy for this would be an ordinary citizen to suddenly become bankrupt and live in poverty. Both types of slaves are kept hard at work in chain-gangs, though Utopians are treated worse than foreigners' demonstrates not only the exploitation of the underclass but that Utopian citizens who become slaves are actually discriminated further.
In A Handmaid's Tale, the underclass is appropriated through Margaret Atwood's portrayal of a social hierarchy where those with the most power exploit the inferior classes in this totalitarian-defined Dystopic state. The Republic of Gileadknows no bounds. Gilead is within you, reveals a society being brainwashed to accept new laws. Atwood wrote this novel in the 1980's, a period where male supremacy was challenged by the feminist movement. Her contribution to the feminist movement is apparent in A Handmaid's Tale, set in a future where male supremacy becomes state law and where women become merely objects possessed by men. The society lives by the motto from each according to her ability, to each according to his needs', a corrupted version of Karl Marx's famous quote from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs'.
