Elisabeth Moss in the TV series Image: Hulu/Courtesy Everett Collection/picture alliance In 2017, the story was broadcast as a television series starring actress Elisabeth Moss and garnered numerous awards. Abortions are punished by death, as are secret love affairs. If the pregnancy is viable, they must carry the children to term and eventually leave them to the mistress of the house. There, the master of the house rapes them until they become pregnant. The few who are still able to do so are captured, robbed of their names, enslaved and kept in rich houses as maids. Atwood's publisher, Random House, is using this video to promote the fireproof copy of one of Atwood's most famous books, "The Handmaid's Tale." The unburnable edition will be auctioned by Sotheby's on the evening of June 7.Ītwood wrote her famous dystopian novel in 1985, creating a world in which religious fanatics take over the United States in a coup and establish a new God-fearing state called Gilead, in which women no longer have any rights.ĭue to an environmental disaster, most women can no longer bear children. The flame shoots out but the book remains unharmed. In the promotional video, author Margaret Atwood holds a flamethrower in her hand, then aims it at a book.
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