It is the shocking semblance that the story has with today's world (with women losing reproductive freedom), forming an allegory of the political system and rights that make it relevant even 35 years later. Originally titled Offred before Atwood changed the name, the book - that was nominated for the Booker Prize - has since been adapted into an award-winning show, a film in 1990, an opera in Boston, and a ballet by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Set in Gilead - an imagined, totalitarian society, the book - as Atwood has said on multiple occasions - is a fictional story but the terrifying incidents depicted in it have all been inspired by real-life events from around the world.įrom puritanism to Ceausescu's communist reign in Romania and the diminishing female rights and the fight against it in 1980s America, the author kept newspaper clippings of dark events that formed the background material for her book.
Atwood's masterpiece, published in 1985, narrates the story of a dystopian world seen through the eyes of Offred, the protagonist. Its a Drama and Science Fiction movie with a better than average IMDb audience rating of 7.0 (6,308.
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