The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale: How Realistic it is There is a feeling of relief after watching a horror movie because the viewer understands that what they just watched was not real. It could not occur in the real world. While reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the reader is not left with that relief. Atwood has a way of writing which makes the reader believe in everything that is happening during the novel and its ability to happen in real life. The main character is names Offred and she is a handmaid who has been taken away from her family and is now used for the purpose of having children. They live in the Republic of Gilead where women are to stay home, have/ take care of babies, and stay in the kitchen; while the men work and make

This creates an illusion of realism in the way of the accuracy of the human brain. People forget things over time which is what Atwood is emphasizing when she writes about Offred’s struggle to remember her past.
I try to conjure, to raise my own spirits, from wherever they are. I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won’t stay still for me, they move, there’s a smile and it’s gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper’s burning, blackness eats them. A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. But to wherever they are. Stay with me, I want to say. But they won’t. It’s my fault. I am forgetting too much (Atwood 193).
It is human nature that if something is not happening in the present then it becomes the past, memories and people alike. Offred is attempting to remember her life in the present. This could possibly be showing her hope to one day get back to how the world used to be, but the present continues to sneak in. “She was still my oldest friend. Is.” (Atwood 173) Offred is referring to Moira and in her mind she is struggling to keep her in the present instead of reducing her to the past. These corrections to Offred’s speech are one of Atwood’s methods of creating the illusion of

She found a way within her writing to replicate the human brains thought pattern. Offred struggled to remember events which had happened and her life; this is the natural course of the memory it dissipates over time. She also used historical event so that no one could protest that what was happening throughout the novel could never take place in real life, because it has. Atwood served a wake up call to all of the people who have read her novel. The book calls for the reader to stand up who the time calls for it and not expect others to handle situations for them. The novel also warns people to watch what they hope for, because the world that a person may think that they want could be something