{"id":5378,"date":"2016-04-09T23:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:06:59","slug":"the-handmaids-tale-american-web-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5378","title":{"rendered":"The Handmaid\u2019s Tale &#038; The Testaments: Margaret Atwood\u2019s Cautionary Story for Women Across the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>rdinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.\u201d <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/span><\/i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Margaret Atwood has frequently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/jan\/18\/my-hero-george-orwell-atwood\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">referred<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to George Orwell as her hero. She read his <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when it was first published in 1949, at the age of 10. Perhaps this precociousness was only natural in a girl \u2013 born as World War II was beginning \u2013 who would grow up in a world as dystopian as anything Orwell could imagine. In 1985, a year after Orwell envisioned a minutely surveilled totalitarian British regime, Atwood released <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/the-handmaids-tale-margaret-atwood-elisabeth-moss-golden-globes\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The novel, about a not-so-distant future where reproduction is a scarce resource and women\u2019s bodies are taken over by an oppressive state, would quickly take its place alongside Orwell\u2019s works as one of the greatest cautionary tales of all time.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offred \u2013 formerly June, now named for the man she serves, a Commander \u2013 is a prized fertile woman who, like the other Handmaids, is placed in a wealthy household to bear children. They are uniformed and regimented, treated as reproductive systems inconveniently couched inside bodies. The Wives, meanwhile, are either barren or are considered to be, since male infertility is never discussed. Older women are either Aunts who train the Handmaids, Marthas who serve as domestic help, or shipped off to the Colonies where they presumably deal with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/sacred-games-gaitonde-prophecy-mumbai-nuked\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">radioactive waste.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Then there are the Econowives who are given to poorer men, and must play all these roles themselves. In her diary, Offred reminisces about the old days when women\u2019s lives and choices were their own.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1568289008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54341\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Offred \u2013 formerly June, now named for the man she serves, a Commander \u2013 is a prized fertile woman who, like the other Handmaids, is placed in a wealthy household to bear children.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Wilson Productions, Inc.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the release of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Testaments<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the sequel set 15 years after <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Atwood <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/sep\/04\/the-testaments-by-margaret-atwood-read-the-exclusive-first-extract\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">delves<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> more deeply into the minds of various kinds of women in Gilead, which appears to be based on the US and Canada. The lines between countries are blurred as wars rage on, fuelled by the same religious fervour that is used to justify the government\u2019s control over citizens. In Gilead, where radiation and chemicals have led to a shrinking population, women are only as valuable as their wombs.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, 34 years on from when Atwood wrote <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, our population problems have gone in a different direction entirely. Despite this, the idea of women\u2019s worth not as individuals or people, but as incubators of new life, is as relevant as ever. Atwood would have seen the hard-won passage of Roe v Wade, the ruling that enshrined women\u2019s right to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/first-person\/confessions-mother-abortion\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">abortion <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">into American law, in 1973. Today, these rights are being systematically rolled back by evangelical movements, especially after the election of Donald Trump in 2016. So when that same year, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was adapted into a web series starring Elisabeth Moss, it became an overnight sensation. Nor was the series\u2019 success limited to the US; as right-wing authoritarians have come to power from Brazil to the Philippines to here in India, viewers all over the world have found familiarity in Gilead.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does it say more about the genius of Atwood or the predictable nature of humanity that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">continues to resonate as much as it did in 1985, without betraying a hint of anachronism or naivete? She would probably choose the latter. Unlike Orwell\u2019s Thought Police, whose very name makes them feel like an overt doublespeak for our cynical times, Atwood still rings true. Even in the novel\u2019s prologue, she emphasises the fact that every indignity and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/hereditary-review-ari-aster-horror-film-graham-family\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">horror<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that seems impossible in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has a real historical precedent. In a sense, Atwood is hardly writing fiction at all, but telling a specific set of truths about propaganda and power, and most of all, about the ephemeral boundaries of normalcy.<\/span>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1568288999.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54340\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>This is how The Handmaid\u2019s Tale explores so many themes through the lens of the ever-contested autonomy of women.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Wilson Productions, Inc.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is how <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explores so many themes through the lens of the ever-contested autonomy of women. At its core, it\u2019s a primer in individual resistance, the battle between the indomitable spirit and the grinding wheels of subjugation. As Aunt Lydia tells Offred and the other Handmaids-in-training, anything can become ordinary; any outrage becomes acceptable once you lose the will to fight back.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, Offred can only survive by refusing to fight. Committing to the reality of Gilead, Atwood\u2019s epilogue reveals that Offred\u2019s tale is not a straightforward diary account. It is a series of secretly recorded cassette tapes that are now being played at an academic conference, held in a post-Gilead future that we would recognise as \u201cnormal.\u201d The academics gathered are looking back, examining the true events that precipitated such a dark time in their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/house-hunting-liberal-bandra-hindu-wife-imaginary-dog\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">society.\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so, smudging the lines between fiction and reality, Atwood poses the ultimate question of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: How will our own times, and our resistance, be documented and judged by those who look back? Will historians be able find excuses for our silence in the face of injustice, or our complacency as our \u201cnormal\u201d grows increasingly bizarre? And what are the costs of being on the right side of history?\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As with the fate of Offred, there are no pat answers to be found in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/the-handmaids-tale-season-2-margaret-atwood-review\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe they will come in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Testaments<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But then, it\u2019s not like Atwood to spoon-feed us her opinions like an Aunt would. She\u2019s already done her job by making sure we\u2019re asking all the right questions.\u00a0<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its core, The Handmaid\u2019s Tale is a primer in individual resistance, the battle between the indomitable spirit and the grinding wheels of subjugation. 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