![]() ![]() I noticed from looking at my notes that I started actually thinking about in 1981. What a series of adventures led up to that coincidence happening. The TV show premiered only a few weeks after his inauguration in 2017. I’ve been fascinated by the added cultural resonance The Handmaid’s Tale took on during the Trump administration. The author recently spoke with Rolling Stone about the inspiration for The Handmaid’s Tale and its companion text, The Testaments, written during Trump’s tenure, her fears for the future, and the one plot point she vetoed from the Hulu series. ![]() “They were all kicked out of somewhere for being on the wrong side of something,” Atwood says. The fourth season of the series, now streaming on Hulu, follows June as she attempts to escape to Canada, as Atwood’s own ancestors did: Protestants driven out of France, and United Empire Loyalists who fled north after the American Revolution. But Atwood sees herself less as an oracle than a student of history - including her own. When the TV adaptation of her book debuted on Hulu in the early months of his administration, it was heralded as an allegory for our times. She watched with trepidation, then, if not necessarily surprise, as Donald Trump was swept into power in 2016. Born in Ottawa in 1939, Atwood has been consumed with the specter of a sudden totalitarian takeover, like the one she imagined in her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, since she was a girl. Margaret Atwood has always been waiting for the other shoe to drop. ![]()
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