Handmaid's Tale (Book 1 of 2): Testaments Humor Dante's poem is a brilliantly

Dante's poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption

when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely

designed to provoke the reader into considering what is actually meant by the word "faith

loving and working

When the image is distorted by our minds

Handmaid's Tale (Book 1 of 2): Testaments Humor Dante's poem is a brilliantlyIt is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now everything has