Book Review of the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

In something of an ironic turn to one years after Orwell's in 1984 expected to be done, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood published her on the abysmal dystopic future with The Handmaid's Tale. Located in a hopeless world, similar to 1984, the novel follows Offred (the name of the reader is never given) and her life as a maid in the Republic of Gilead.

Once a woman a sexual crime (Offred The case is committed, she was married to a man who was divorced), she explains, "likeWoman "that is being sent as a concubine for Commander train (a highly placed party member). Only the rich will be assigned to the birth of their maids, sons and daughters. Maids spend 2 years in each house commander, and if they are incapable of an heir not produce, they are infertile declared "Unwomen" and sent the colonies. Never assume that the male is not the reason, a maid in a position to reproduce, as if the Republic of Gilead believes is a male-centric totalitarian state where the peoplecomplete control.

Offred lives doing their everyday lives at menial jobs, shopping and such, but spends most of their time over her ex-husband and daughter, for fear that they might not be alive. The story begins in the development of the story of the relationship between Offred and her commander. Not a sexual relationship, he began secretly to his study to read to give him in simple activities that are now considered illegal, a game Scrabble, magazines. SinceCommanders are to entertain, prohibited her servants outside the monthly fertilization experiment, both are risking Offred caught and sent away. Offred is not for the party and its restrictive regime, and with the loss of her family, she feels that she has nothing to lose.

Meanwhile, the Commander says Offred wife that her husband is sterile, most likely do not understand how the previous two maids, and suggests that they and their driver, Nick himself into a sexualRelationship to produce a child. Passing of a child in this way is certainly illegal, but the commander is the woman for a child is desperate and willing to cover up for Offred.

Unnoticed by Offred, Nick is a member of the Mayday Underground Resistance and is working to Offred have slipped out of the country. When the van pulls her away, is not sure whether they will be removed Offred, in order to be saved, or the colonies. The end suggests never, but it is believed, it isstored.

This is certainly one of the most famous Margaret Atwood novels, a play that never date itself, unlike his predecessor, 1984th In addition, many dystopian novels are mostly written from the male perspective, so that the book lives as an example of feminist prose, and resistance.

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