THE HANDMAIDS TALE OVERALL

OVERALL THE HANDMAIDS TALE 

NIGHTMARISH VISION OF FURTURE

-near furture new american fundamentalist republic of gilead

-democractic institutions overthrown-replaced 

-GILEAD=NAMED AFTER PLACE IN OLD TESTAMENT A MOUNTANIONOUS REGION REST OF THE JORDON 

TALE OF REISTANCE OR SURVIVAL?

-first person-vivid testimony and retains sense of idenity and and psycholgical freedom

-protagonists tale left incomplete

-her story relayed through edited transcipts of her cassette tapres=reamins as testimony to survival of human spirit

FRAGMENTED NARRATIVE 

-WHEN BEGINS PLUNGED INTO FRAGMNTED NARRATIVE-we feel shock…