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The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmail's Tale of his title, in English) is a novel by the Canadian Margaret Atwood, published in 1985 in English and translated into French in 1987. This is a dystopian novel, which received the year of its release, the Arthur C. Clarke Award (prize awarded to the best British science fiction novel). It was also made into a film in 1990 by Volker Schlöndorff.

We are in an unidentified space, where no country is mentioned, immersed in a future more or less close but devastated. Pollution, atomic plants and all the toxins released into the air have had because of the fertility of women. Now, few women can get pregnant, so the only still fertile hands are given to commanders, they give birth to them. Dressed in red from head to foot, as they have to submit and to procreate, otherwise terrible punishment.
Defred will tell us his story. It is a servant of many in the republic of Gilead theocracy, governed by religious fanatics. Torn from her family, she will be deprived of liberty and feelings, forced to evolve in a confined and gloomy world ... In this dystopian novel, Margaret Atwood portrays become a totalitarian society, where women are reduced to the status of servants , forced, moreover, to procreate not to die; they have therefore become slaves.

The style of this book is reminiscent of the totalitarian world of George Orwell's 1984, two different companies in their practices, but similar in their way of life and functioning. Both are scary, they chill the reader on site thanks to the many details and all descriptions that may suggest that these two worlds are real ...

Through the confessions of the narrator Defred, we share his hard life, rather its role in this cruel totalitarian society. Unlike the life she led before she is now deprived of liberty, it has no real identity, family ... it was stripped of all his rights. The touching story depicts it allows us to immerse ourselves in life, to attach to it, and even identify with it.

Throughout the reading of this novel, a certain malaise was present on every page. Besides the fact that it is scary and terribly stuffy, multiple reflections can rise to the surface, especially concerning feminism and women's status in society, but also the freedom of his own person.

So Margaret Atwood has created a unique world with its own codes and rules: a very good idea of ​​the novel, called today futuristic novel.
It is a book incredibly original and very moving, a story that I will not forget anytime soon.