The Handmaid's Tale is a critically acclaimed drama series based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. Set in a dystopian future, the series follows the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the oppressive Republic of Gilead, as she navigates her life
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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. The protagonist, a woman named Offred, occupies the role of a "handmaid": women who are forcibly assigned to bear children for high status men.