The Importance Of Setting In The Handmaid's Tale

Demonstrating the strength of the setting played a major role in delivering the idea of the systemic control of the society in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood chose the non-resistant attributes of the protagonist in the novel carefully because she sought for displaying a clear picture of the story, without letting the protagonist’s pathos alter it; which helped on letting the historical notes increase the significance and the power of the setting by showing how non immune she was in the novel as a result of the strong impact that the setting had on the real Offred, who was revealed to us in the Historical notes. Atwood’s construction of the narration in the literary realm was designed to display the incompetence of Offred in the novel for the purpose of revealing her inescapable fate, which demonstrates Atwood 's intensions of imagining the worst possible scenario of that society and thus forestall it from occurring in the future. Atwood used the non-impervious characteristics of Offred as well as her knowledge and awareness of her surroundings as a power that purposefully hid her sense of helplessness in that setting, for the sake of preventing her pathos from concealing the whole picture of the novel. The reader can notice Offred 's observations …show more content…
The narrative of The Handmaid 's Tale established the idea of the mental and physical imprisonment that not just Offred, but all the characters go through including the ones who are with powers more than others. Despite the control of the setting in this novel, even if the individuals in that society had the choice to make a decision in their lives their inability to predict the system 's intentions is strongly connected with how their mentality changed and how their choices are also controlled by higher