this is a dbooik review odk

The story is taking place in the republic of Gilead the u.s government got overthrown and a new totalitarian state was formed which is called Gilead 

The entire social structure has changed and definitely not for the better for one woman have been stripped of all their rights and they have been divided into certain categories.

So there are the wives then there are the aunts there are the handmaids there are Marthas and so on and everything has been banned for everyone.

All the handmaids are stripped of their names as well, so the purpose of the handmaids is to basically breed only fertile women are made handmaids they are allotted to powerful men who are commanders.

These commanders have to impregnate these handmaids this particular handmaid who narrates this story is called offered off is basically of and Fred is the name of the commander that she is allotted to so that's why she's called offred and similarly other handmaids are also named in this fashion only.

The story is divided into two parts you can say one part is the night part and the other part is the events that take place during the day as narrated by offered

During the story we also read about offred's flashbacks as she talks about the time when things were the normal first thing that I have to say is that it completely lives up to its genre which is dystopian 

The handmaid's tale pdf