The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The Handmaid's Tale was a book I had been itching to get my hands on for some time. After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all controlling Republic of Gilead. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale was challenged in 2008 by a Toronto parent who objected to it being studied in a Grade 12 English Class. This entry was posted on Friday, May 31st, 2013 at 11:37 am Filed under Essays and. The novelist's The Handmaid's Tale warns us of a world post-national tragedy where women have no rights and conveniences like technology are greatly restricted. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood “Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. The premise was delicious - a dystopian future in which women have been divided according to the functions the males have assigned them. The future is bleak according to Margaret Atwood. €OfFred was a normal everyday woman with a career, a name, a life like all women have come to expect and take for granted in this age. Run with those clichés and you have Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. The Handmaid's Tale is a classic dystopian novel about The Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime comprised of what was once part of The United States. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. For World Book Night, which is next Tuesday, April 23, I'm giving away The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, so I decided to re-read it. The Handmaid's Tale reviewed by Shenice Coote. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.