margaret atwood | Snowy Fictions

How Realistic Is The Handmaid’s Tale? Not By Much.

by Madeleine Rose Jones | Mar 9, 2020 | Philosophy

Note: This blog post contains no spoilers for Atwood’s books or the television show. Atwood’s groundbreaking dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale is proof that fiction has the ability to appear too real. Yet how realistic is The Handmaid’s Tale? The...