The Handmaid Tale "The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dystopia about a world where unrealistic things take place. The events in the novel could never actually take place in our reality." This is what most people think and assume, but they're wrong. Look at the world today and in the recent past, and there are not only many situations that have ALMOST become a Gilead, but places that have been and ARE Gileadean …showed first 75 words of 1486 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1486 total…racist beliefs and actions, and senseless killings of non-whites, attempts at Theocracies, and religions gaining in strenght, making believers out of paraphrases and outright lies: All of these are in our world, the real world. Margaret Atwood has created a "story" that isn't really a story. It is a representation of all that is wrong with our world today. So, in fact, this imaginative tale is not so far fetched. We are living in it.