The Handmaid's Tale
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Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
Atwood invites the reader to consider both ideas including optimistic and pessimistic elements in the novel. Her views on gender politics and morality are portrayed throughout Offred’s fragmented narrative providing capacity for the reader’s own view. The key point that makes ‘The Handmaids Tale’ an optimistic novel, is the fact that Gilead ceases to exist. The totalitarian state is completely overthrown demonstrating that an extremist society cannot survive. This is a key idea that emanates from the novel and thus the reader sees it from an optimistic viewpoint.
Throughout The Handmaid's Tale we find recurring instances where Atwood focuses on the vital importance of human relationships. Of course, virtually every work of art in almost every medium could be said to explore human relationships, but in The Handmaid's Tale Atwood specifically depicts a society where such relationships have been altered, undermined and in many ways forbidden.The key word in the issue of relationships is love. Atwood specifically distinguishes this from sex.
