Monday Maternity Madness THE HANDMAID'S TALE

Much as George Orwell's prophetic dystopian novel 1984 was published decades before many elements of it became fact...

Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel about a future America (renamed Gilead in the early 21st Century) approaches realization in 2024!

We proudly present a couple of excerpts from the graphic novel adaptation, published in 2019.

Note that the Handmaids' clothing designs and other uniforms are somewhat different from the movie or TV series.

Before selection, potential Handmaids live in dorms where communication with each other is forbidden.

The "lucky" ones are placed only in households of the rich and powerful whose wives cannot conceive children.

Note that it is mentioned that failure to conceive is sometimes the husband's fault!
(But it's a situation that likely happens more often than discussed...)
The unnamed narrator is assigned to The Commander and given the name "Offred" since her new master is Fred...

Offred manages to escape, but her fate is unknown.

The epilogue is set in the future (specifically 2195), when Gilead has been replaced by a more rational government and way of life...

There's an award-winning sequel novel published in 2019, The Testaments, set fifteen years after the conclusion of Tale and chronicles the fall of Gilead.
This graphic novel was also published in 2019.
HERE'S an interview with the adaptation writer/artist with some concept art!
Whether you borrow the prose novel or graphic novel from the library or buy it (new or used), please READ it!
Too many of the concepts shown are in the Republican platform and its' manual Mandate for Leadership: Project 2025 (which you can download in PDF form at Archive.org HERE)!

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