Back on May 5, I discussed the announcement about a television series based on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Hulu, an American online company and streaming service, will be screening a 10-episode drama series based on the award-winning, best-selling novel. The series is set to air early next year.
Elisabeth
Moss will play Offred, a Handmaid trying to survive in the male-dominated
totalitarian regime of Gilead. Enslaved
by a society that values only her fertility, Offred must find a way to survive
in this world of oppression and swift, cruel punishments.
Atwood, who
is serving as consulting producer, said, “The
Handmaid's Tale is more relevant now than when it was written.” Recently, I came across an article that
agrees with Atwood and argues that the the dystopia Atwood envisioned more than
30 years ago exists in the present: the novel
is “a chilling blueprint, a kind of literary prophecy for the not-so-future
state of women in America here and now.”
The article,
entitled “Is The Handmaid’s Tale a
Prophecy of America’s Future,” makes for interesting reading: http://www.theestablishment.co/2016/09/28/is-the-handmaids-tale-a-prophecy-of-americas-future/.
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