VISION IN MARGARET ATWOODS THE HANDMAID”S TALE

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is an important novel in many aspects including visions. This is a novel with a definite visionary quality and it depicts a terrifying annihilistic and futuristic vision. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is cast in the form of visionary fiction, which is presented as a women's dystopia. The novel is a brilliant indictment of the twentieth century life as a whole in a totalitarian state. The Handmaid's Tale projects a grim vision of the plight of women in the foreseeable future, a vision which broadens almost into an apocalyptic one. The paper attempts to reflect the vision of Atwood in the socio-cultural and socio-political condition of the Gilead period, which exhibits the conflicts and tensions, fear of uncertainty, violence and insecurity among the people.