The Handmaid's Tale: una forma de supervivencia

Abstract

Although major dystopian features can be recognized in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, the book definitely offers an additional characteristic that has not been considered as often and to which this paper pays special attention, namely, irony. The novel's ironic tone serves to alleviate the grim dystopian world providing some emotional relief from the encounter with the horrid nature of events. In spite of this dystopian nightmare, an impulse to survive permeates the novel, a feature we also consider here.