What has Margaret Atwood achieved so far in her novel The Handmaid s Tale Discuss
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In the plot of 'The Handmaid's Tale' Margaret Atwood has achieved a great deal. Already, in chapter one, she has established that everything is not as it should be. Firstly we know that it has been set in the future because she talks about the past
'Dances would've been held there' and 'we slept in what had once been the gymnasium'. The narrator also talks about past fashions,
'From the watching girls, felt-skirted, as I knew from pictures, later in mini-skirts, then in one earring, spiky-green streaked hair'. These quotes all suggest that something very significant has happened, and the narrator is looking back wanting for normality.
Then we do find out something is wrong, as she starts to talk in the present day.
'Old ones that still said the U.S.'. This makes us wonder as it states they are old, that the U...