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Discuss the author's treatment of time in a novel you have studied. A dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale is authored by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Through the novel, Atwood's treatment of the time has an essential role delivering the themes and the messages to the readers. Atwood employs Offred as the main charater to narrate the story in an unchronological way. Later, the Professor James Darcy Pieixoto narrates the story in year 2195. In Atwood's novel, Offred tells the story in an unchronological order, and enables the readers see the differences between totalitarian society of Gilead and pre-Gilead society. In Gilead, a group of religious leaders has taken the power. Gilead is a society founded on a "return to traditional values," gender roles and on the subjugation of women by men. Atwood uses Offred's flashbacks to emphasize the brutality of the republic of Gilead. The day when Jenine goes...

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