Almost overnight, it catapulted Atwood’s story about a sex slave called Offred living in the Republic of Gilead (which geographically corresponds to the United States after a civil war) into the realm of popular culture and made the author a superstar among millennials.Įlisabeth Moss plays Offred in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. The TV show was a timely revival of the novel published over 30 years ago. And that’s not a fun place,” said Atwood a few months after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s administration has since rolled back numerous women’s rights - such as cutting public funding to sexual health clinicsand appointing Supreme Court justices favourable to strict restrictions on abortion.Ītwood says this is why the book and its namesake TV-series adaptation by Hulu are having such a renaissance – and also why she decided to pen a sequel.
“I don’t enjoy being right, because being right means that we are where we are. In fact, one doesn’t have to dig deep to find parallels to the story in Nazi Germany, Pinochet’s Chile or the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, to name a few precedents.Īlso read: Margaret Atwood: ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Feels Real, but Solution Won’t Come From Novelsīut it’s not the past that draws readers to Atwood’s prose her fans admire her foresight, as they see worrying parallels in current political developments: I decided not to put anything in that somebody somewhere hadn’t already done,” Atwood said in a 2017 interview with People magazine. “There’s a precedent in real life for everything in the book. She has been described as the “queen of dystopia” for her chilling portrayal of authoritarianism in her bestselling 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Even though it’s a work of fiction, Atwood’s most famous book is actually based on a series of facts: The 79-year-old award-winning Canadian author based her terrifying narrative on existing and historical cases of oppression against women.
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