THE ANGUISH OF THE DYSTOPIAN HEROINE IN “THE HANDMAID’S TALE” BY MARGARET ATWOOD
THE ANGUISH OF THE DYSTOPIAN HEROINE IN “THE HANDMAID’S TALE” BY MARGARET ATWOOD

Summary/Abstract: The dystopian Gilead, the totalitarian Earth depicted by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood, is the unfortunate examples of how the corporatist state could find ingenious ways of creating and at the same time, destroying the human individual. The author creates a world that is a grotesque implementation of the Biblical dogma. The theocratic state of Gilead tries to create an earthly Heaven. Using the Bible, twisting and bending language and fundamental believes in order to imbody the ideas of a group of people, the state of Gilead has apparently found the perfect world for men, that accept and take on the teaching of the few, and the less perfect structure for the women who lose the small thread of independence they fought so hard for. The earthly Heaven has failed, just like everything mean to be ideal, but built by man.

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