Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author who is best known for her classic dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985 and has since become one of the most important dystopian novels of the 20th century.
Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale in order to explore the potential for a theocratic takeover of the United States government.
The book takes place in a near-future America that has been taken over by a theocratic government known as the Republic of Gilead.
The Republic of Gilead is a totalitarian regime that controls every aspect of its citizens’ lives, including their reproductive rights.
The handmaids in The Handmaid’s Tale are women who have been forced into sexual servitude in order to bear children for the ruling class of Gilead.
Atwood has said that The Handmaid’s Tale is not a predictions of the future, but rather a warning about the potential for such a future.
The book has been adapted into a successful television series on Hulu starring Elisabeth Moss (who also starred in another hit show based on an Atwood novel: The Handmaid’s Tale). Elisabeth Moss won an Emmy Award for her performance as Offred/June in both seasons two.
