atwood wrote the handmaid's tale in 1956.
atwood wrote the handmaid's tale in 1956.
when did atwood wrote the handmaid's tale?
1956
bullet::::- atwood, margaret (1985), "the handmaid's tale", toronto: mcclelland & stewart, (1986), the handmaid's tale, new york: anchor books.(1998), the handmaid's tale, new york: anchor books (div. of random house), . parenthetical page references are to the 1998 ed. digitized 2 june 2008 by google books (311 pp.) (2005), "la servante écarlate" ["the handmaid's tale"] (in french), rué, sylviane transl, paris: j'ai lu, .









































bullet::::- atwood, m. (2004). the handmaid's tale and oryx and crake "in context". "pmla", "119"(3), 513–517.









































bullet::::- atwood, m. (20 january 2012). "haunted by the handmaid's tale". "the guardian".
the handmaid's tale
fitting with her claims that "the handmaid's tale" is a work of speculative fiction, not science fiction, atwood's novel offers a satirical view of various social, political, and religious trends of the 1980s united states. further, atwood questions what would happen if these trends, and especially "casually held attitudes about women" were taken to their logical end. atwood continues to argue that all of the scenarios offered in "the handmaid's tale" have actually occurred in real life—in an interview she gave regarding "oryx and crake", atwood maintains that "as with "the handmaid's tale", i didn't put in anything that we haven't already done, we're not already doing, we're seriously trying to do, coupled with trends that are already in progress... so all of those things are real, and therefore the amount of pure invention is close to nil." atwood was also known to carry around newspaper clippings to her various interviews to support her fiction's basis in reality. atwood has explained that "the handmaid's tale" is a response to those who claim the oppressive, totalitarian, and religious governments that have taken hold in other countries throughout the years "can't happen here"—but in this work, she has tried to show how such a takeover might play out.
the handmaid's tale