The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood set in a near-future New England. The story follows the journey of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Offred is one of
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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.