This is a novel of the future. This novel describes the future. Although future novels contain sci-fi elements, they have strong cultural content. It tells the history of the future, thus making the future within reach.
The longest time described in The Handmaid's Tale is more than 200 years from the writing time of the novel. The work is based on the findings of several historians. A woman who unfortunately became a handmaid in Gilead and escaped by luck tells the reader the story that happened before that time, that is, the protagonist's personal experience in the next 265438+early 20th century, which is mixed with a lot of memories and reflections on the protagonist's life in the 1980s.
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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic. She graduated from the University of Toronto and is an important representative of the international feminist movement in the field of literature.
The fantasy novel The Handmaid's Tale published by 1985 made Margaret Atwood famous, and was nominated for Prometheus Award, Xingyun Award and Booker Award, the highest honor in English literature. It became one of the most classic fantasy novels in the 20th century.
Growing female consciousness is a main thread in Atwood's works. She observes the relationship between women and between women and society from the perspective of women, and gender politics, which is crucial for women's survival, is an important content that she repeatedly discusses in her novels and poems.
Although The Maid is a novel of the future, its theme is realistic and diverse. It describes the persecution and strangulation of human nature by authoritarian regimes, and also touches on other issues that are generally concerned by modern society, such as social environment and pollution.
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