The Handmaid\'s Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood - Could This Really Happen?

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood tells the story of an America suddenly run under a theocracy called Gilead. This theocracy is formed in the United States after the US president and members of Congress are…

Margaret Atwood's dystopic novel The Handmaid's Tale reveals scenarios chillingly similar to contemporary life. The rights of women in The Handmaid's Tale have been curtailed significantly, but the handmaids' suffering…

Daniel Defoe and Margaret Atwood created more than two centuries apart, two fictional autobiographies of two women that were both victims of the societies they were either born into, as in the case of Defoe's heroine,…

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." [Genesis 3:16] -- (Chapter 19)

At first reading, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale seem to have little to do with each other except for the very general fact that both novels have elements of social and political…