Essential Passages from Margaret Atwood’s Feminist Dystopian Novel
“The Handmaid’s story” is actually a popular feminist book by Margaret Atwood emerge a dystopian future. With it, war and air pollution have made maternity and childbearing progressively tough, and ladies are enslaved as prostitutes or “virginal” concubines (“handmaiden”) in order to repopulate and manage the population.
Atwood’s breathtaking, haunting prose in “The Handmaid’s Tale” are informed through the first-person attitude of a lady known as Offred (or “Of Fred,” this lady grasp). (viac…)