Atwood, Tha Handmaid's Tale

Dystopia is a world in which everything is imperfect, and everything goes terribly wrong. Dystopian literature shows us a nightmarish image about what might happen to the world in the near future, (a dystopia is the opposite of an utopia).Adapted from Margaret Atwood's magnificent novel, The Handmaid's Tale series plunges us into a terrifying America where women are considered the property of a state now controlled by a Puritan religious movement. And if the parallel reality described by Atwood is so frightening, it is because it resonates strongly with the current events of yesterday, today and tomorrow. While The Handmaid's Tale serves as a cautionary tale, it sometimes only describes what is a reality for others. For example, in the show, abortion is a crime. There are no exceptions, even in a medical emergency. And a doctor who performed one would be hanged immediately. In many countries around the world, abortion is still illegal. One might imagine that The Handmaid's Tale would go to the extreme of caricature to illustrate its point. But each time, we notice that the novel and the series only underline very real aberrations. When June and Moira do not have access to their bank accounts, then are fired from their jobs to finally lose almost all their rights, we must remember that in Saudi Arabia, women do not have the right to have a bank account and they are under the influence of male guardianship deprived of some of their rights. Other great works also show us that the dystopia is approaching of the reality, notably with the novels of George Orwell(1984), Divergent or even Hunger games.

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