The Handmaid’s Tale
Total Points
#58
- Pages
- 311
- Genres
- Science Fiction Feminism Dystopia
In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time...
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Aug 23rd, 2025
Absolutely brilliant. Make sure you read the follow up, The Testaments after, it really helps to complete the story and fill in some background too.
Oct 3rd, 2019
The Handmaid's Tale touches upon a lot of topics with vigorous feminism but what broke my heart as if a knife tore through it was Atwood's decipherment of the current state of affairs where she does not point to a specific gender as the culprit but the idea that women are to be objectified if the world is to progress. In the novel, although majority women are oppressed, other women do enjoy a life of luxury with men, hinting that it is all in the thought. It's magically dull, pure dystopian, but still gives you a glimmer of hope thanks to its vociferously charming lead character Offred. One of my best reads of 2019. TN.
Jan 4th, 2018
what an introduction to Margaret Atwood!
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Horrifyingly fascinating but got sick of the Feminist propoganda.
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