The Handmaid's Tale

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title: The Handmaid's Tale
text: The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. Offred is the central character and narrator and one of the "Handmaids": women who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "Commanders", who are the ruling class in Gilead. The novel explores themes of powerless wo
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description: 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood
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date modified: 2024-09-10T04:19:12Z
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