Review Of ' The Handmaid 's Tale '

Dystopian Research Essay: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood In the words of Erika Gottlieb "With control of the past comes domination of the future." A dystopia reflects and discusses major tendencies in contemporary society. The Handmaid 's Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. The novel follows its protagonist Offred as she lives in a society focused on physical and spiritual oppression of the female identity. Within The Handmaid 's Tale it is evident that through the exploration

Oxford definition: “the advocacy of women 's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes” (Oxford dictionary). In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood explores feminism through the themes of women’s bodies as political tools, the dynamics of rape culture and the society of complacency. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939, at the beginning of WWII, growing up in a time of fear. In the autumn of 1984, when she began writing The Handmaid’s Tale, she was living in West Berlin. The Berlin

When Margaret Atwood published her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, in 1998, it was met with a wave of mixed reviews. Dystopic and Utopic novels have always been critiques of the time periods in which they are written. They extrapolate present truths and can provide valuable critiques of the ills that our society faces. Upon publishing of this novel, two main questions were raised. First, Is this an accurate and fair critique of the 1980’s social and political climate? Furthermore, Is Atwood’s story a

world. People accepted the new society without much resistance only to later realize that they had been duped. The founders of Gilead took conservative ideas and implemented them to the extreme. Women’s rights are taken away. Reading is forbidden. Handmaids are introduced to bear children. The government takes over and a dystopia is born. They control almost every aspect of the people’s lives, down to the food that they

Handmaid’s Tale, considering its direct relation to women’s rights and the article’s timeliness in regards to the Women’s March on Washington. According to Atwood (2017) the book’s sales have spiked 30 percent in 2016. This article is relevant to my paper as it provides background on why

of serving the country overcame the option of being a monk so he entered parliament. Although More 's interest was in civic duty he still could not give up in his Interest in the literary world. It is believed that around 1513 and 1516 More wrote the History of King Richard III. Theirs writings are considered to be the one of the first Masterpiece of English Historiography. In 1516 Thomas More 's wrote the famous books of Utopia. This piece of work was more than just a book it was a freedom of speech