The Handmaid's Tale 2

The Handmaids’s Tale by Margaret Atwood “The Handmaids’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dysutopian about a world where unrealistic things take place. The events in the novel could never actually take place in our reality.” This is most people view about this novel. However the ideas in the novel are not so far fetch. Although the exact Gilead society would never happen in real life, it is not to say that certain …

…racist beliefs and actions, and senseless killings of non-whites, attempts at Theocracies, and religions gaining in strength, making believers out of paraphrases and outright lies: All of these are in our world, the real world. Margaret Atwood has created a "story" that isn't really a story. It is a representation of all that is wrong with our world today. So, in fact, this imaginative tale is not so far fetched. We are living in it.