The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
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The Handmaid’s Tale: Genre 1 key example

Key Examples in The Handmaid’s Tale

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The Handmaid's Tale is speculative fiction/dystopian writing. Like her contemporaries (i.e., Ursula K. Le Guin), Atwood uses speculative writing as a form of political commentary on modern problems. The Handmaid's Tale is a kind of thought experiment: what would happen if these values in American culture were taken to their furthest extreme? What would a Christian theocracy in America look like?