An Analysis Of The Handmaid's Tale

To begin, the author of this influential novel, The Handmaid's Tale, is Margaret Atwood, who was born in Ottawa, Ontario on November 18, 1939. Throughout her years of being a writer, she has published many important pieces of literatures such as her first book of poetry in 1961, The Edible Woman (1969), and The Handmaid's Tale (1986). Also, she has attended and received degrees at University of Toronto, as well as Harvard University. Moving on, The Handmaid's novel was written in West Berlin an Alabama during the mid-1980 and was published in 1986, as mentioned before. With this in mind, this story takes place in Cambridge, specifically the Harvard area, outside Boston. Since, this dystopian novel is based on the idea of a corrupt world, the