![]() ![]() But it is more than that, of course no mere return visit to memorable characters or response to the popular Hulu show, The Testaments is a deliberate reaction to current politics. The afterword, in the setting of the academic conference, ends with: “Are there any questions?”įor Atwood, the primary question-one she has been asked “repeatedly” by readers over the decades-is: “How did Gilead fall?” The Testamentsis her answer. The afterward was, according to Atwood, “a little utopia concealed in the dystopic” novel, even if readers did not learn what happened to Offred. ![]() This meant, of course, that the patriarchal dystopia Gilead was a relic of the past that had become an object of study. At the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood offered a brief coda detailing the Twelfth Symposium of Gileadean Studies, in which scholars debated the meaning and implications of the rebellious Handmaid’s story as a primary historical document. Luckily for her fans, her story did not end there. Thirty-four years ago, our pregnant heroine Offred climbed into a black van and disappeared. ![]()
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