![]() ![]() ![]() It is one of many that she has written, and far from the only dystopian novel, in her lifetime. The Handmaid’s Tale is undeniably Atwood’s most famous novel. ![]() Climax: The final scene of the novel when Offred is either taken to her death or rescued.Setting: Massachusetts, the Republic of Gilead (in what used to be the United States).When/where written: Early 1980s in West Berlin, British Columbia, and Alabama.Offred tells the story of her life in The Handmaid’s Tale, speaking brutally of what the world has become, her desire to find her daughter again, and somehow achieve freedom. Offred is a Handmaid whose only purpose in Gilead is to have children for a wealthy, elite couple. The protagonist, Offred, is one of many still-fertile women who have been captured by the military and forced into sexual slavery. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is set in the Republic of Gilead after a military coup has destroyed the United States government and put in its place a totalitarian theocracy. ![]()
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