The Testaments: The Difference within the Gileadean World

Margaret Atwood’s recent dystopian novel The Testaments (2019) revisits Handmaid’s Tale by depicturing Gilead’s nightmarish world of the patriarchal order, which is established especially against women’s potency. sequel reminds contemporary readers Offred and her miseries who told categorised women Gilead functioning as Wives, Handmaids, Marthas. This time, with three different female figures, Baby Nicole, Agnes, Aunt Lydia, protagonists/ narrators, take place on edges Gileadean Atwood transforms events Tale, Offred. encircles Offred’s tale shedding light subsequent second-generation (Agnes Nicole) comprises prequel parts that Lydia provides. In this way, to “destabilise [the] unitary vision subject open it up multiple complex reconfigurations diversity belongings, so [emphasise] … internal fractures within each subject-position, or ‘difference within’” follow-up text. With streaming narratives set forth intersected phases destroy totalitarian regime reached “identities their own,” maintains intriguing magic tales. article aims trace outlooks narrators procure a dimension “gynesis” through re-exhibited comes its end via have taken part in period dissolution.