“The Handmaid’s Tale”, a dystopian fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, was written about two decades ago, however the passing of time does not change the quality of this unique story. The story takes place in a Republic of Gilead, a futuristic United States, in which a Christian theocracy has overthrown the old government and are now forcing everyone to live by their beliefs, word by word. Offred, a young woman who is assigned with the duty of being a handmaid, a person who bears children for their assigned couple, lives with her commander and his wife, Serena, in his mansion. The commander is an elderly man who has a high position in the government and he once a month has to have sexual intercourse with Offred due to the declining birth rates in the Republic of Gilead. Serena is the assigned wife of the commander, although she can’t bear children herself due to her age, she waits for Offred to hopefully become pregnant in order to finally have the child that she has always desired to have. …show more content…
As the story progresses, Offred begins to put her life at risk by doing illegal activities behind her commander’s back, such as leaving her community with the chauffeur, Nick, and playing a game of scrabble with her commander in order to get any information about the whereabouts of her daughter as well as her husband. Overall, the resolution to this uncertainty is rather disappointing because the reader believes that Offred will finally find all the answers she is looking for but in the end the reader is left with a resolution that they wish they hadn’t