'''''The Handmaid's Tale''''' is a dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood set in the near future in which an authoritarian theocratic government, oppressing women under a Biblical fundamentalist ideology, has achieved ascendancy over the [[United States of America]]. It was made into a movie in 1990.
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'''''The Handmaid's Tale''''' is a dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood set in the near future in which an authoritarian theocratic government, oppressing women under a Biblical fundamentalist ideology, has achieved ascendancy over the [[United States of America]]. It was made into a movie in 1990. It shows the dangers of a society in which religion becomes too powerful.