Retelling of Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale in Modern Times

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic and environmental activist. She is the winner of many prestigious awards and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once. Margaret Atwood's famous dystopian feminist novel, written in 1985 was always ahead of its time. Set in an imaginary land called Gilead1, the book is about a dystopian future where pollution, lifestyle and nuclear contamination have led to infertility. A theonomic2 military dictatorship regime has taken over the country and the belief is that now only God can save them. Atwood points out that the extreme nature of Gilead is a result of the conservative and feminist viewpoint espoused during the time she wrote the novel.