The HandMaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood Novel "The HandMaid's Tale" 

The HandMaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale could be a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, originally revealed in 1985. it's set in a very near-future geographic area, in a very totalitarian state resembling a theonomy, that has overthrown our government. The novel focuses on the journey of the handmaid Offred. Her name derives from the possessive kind "of Fred"; handmaids square measure prescribed to use their birth names and should echo the male, or master, whom they serve.

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The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of ladies in subjugation in a very patriarchic society and therefore the varied means that by that these women conceive to gain individualism and independence. The novel's title echoes the part elements of Geoffrey Chaucer's The narrative, that could be a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The Parson's Tale", etc.)

The Handmaid's Tale is structured into 2 elements, night and alternative varied events. This novel may be understood as a double narrative, Offred's tale and therefore the handmaids' tales. The night sections square measure alone concerning Offred, and therefore the alternative sections (shopping, room, household, etc.) square measure the stories that describe the attainable lifetime of each handmaid, tho from the attitude of Offred. In several of those sections, Offred jumps between past and gift as she retells the events leading up to the autumn of women's rights and therefore the current details of the life that she currently lives.

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The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and therefore the initial Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it absolutely was conjointly nominative for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 agent Prize, and therefore the 1987 Titan Award. The book has been custom-made into a 1990 film, a 2000 opera, a tv series, and alternative media.

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