Margaret Atwood’s books are not easy to narrate, the author adds a lot of twisty situations and complex characters in her tales all the time. Only a narrator like Claire Danes could have handled these hot things. Sudden changes will make your mind a bit giddy at the beginning of the novel and slowly you will get to enjoy these changes every now and then. Talk about politics and the big power game, everything is involved in this story. Don’t select Fourteen Days and Oryx and Crake at once rather start with this book which is the author’s favorite as well.
A terrorist attack starts the big game when all the high officials connected to the government get killed in a single blast. There was no one left from the government that could rule the Republic of Gilead after that. So the oppressors took control of the empire and there was no one who could contest the rule.
This changed everything in the life of Offred as well who used to live a happy life with her daughter and husband. The act of terrorism took everything away from her and now she was nothing more than a handmaid in the house of the commander. The wife of the commander was also quite cruel in her behavior but Offred was working without any kind of apparent hatred because she wanted revenge from the entire new government.
In order to do this, she must get connected to the resistance so that she might be able to destroy these oppressors from the inside. This is a tricky battle in which everything is happening behind closed doors and nothing is visible until it has been executed.