Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and An Untold Tale of Subjugation and Eschatological Reality

Abstract

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986) is a
dystopian novel that opens us to the bizarre reality of women's custodian
rape and violence. Things look quite strange and alarming due to
women's oppression which results in a traumatized experience. This is
overtly a political novel and tries to spotlight the sense of ineffable life
that is miserable and also self-revealing. The novel narrates the story of
Offred, a handmaid a sinister handmaid. She was forced to become one
due to the rise of fanatic power in the states of America. America is now
the Republic of Gilead, where everything is controlled by dominance,
oppression, and bigotry. It is, glamorized as a fantasy that impinges on
our real life. The novel lends itself to solicit the feminist cause which
leads us to an eschatological reality. Briefly, it tells a tale in the most
personal sense about the complicity, fidelity, and betrayal, in the political
setup in the contemporary United States.
As the novelist, Atwood builds up fine gossamer of
imaginative tale out of a deep love for nature, libertine feminist activism
and inclination of science, etc., and perhaps an awful condition we are
struggling to tackle but all in the future time frame.