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A complete guide to The Handmaid’s Tale and Frankenstein - including plot overview, context and key quotations with analysis

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The Handmaid's Tale

Key points about The Handmaid's tale and Gilead:
 Atwood doesn’t call her novel science fiction; she calls it speculative: it is a worst-case scenario of her
concerns for society
 These are all valid concerns in society, summed up in the dystopian Republic of Gilead.
 All of what happens has happened somewhere, at some time, which is what makes it terrifying as it
demonstrates what humans are capable of. It is believably frightening.
 It is a dystopia rooted in realism.
 It is a totalitarian state, which limits freedom, language, privacy and roles.
 It is also a monotheocratic state- state control is based on one religion; however, she is not scared of
religion, but she is scared of people manipulating religion to control people. The church is used as a religion
because the spiritual element of religion is no longer needed- it is the control that they gain from religion
that is key. They even capitalize religion- they charge people for prayers.



Context of the 1980s:
 Worry about nuclear bombs and pollution were prominent- radiation, thalidomide disaster, ongoing threat
of nuclear war.
 Atwood was an environmentalist
 There were declining birth rates, and methods being brought in to combat this, such as IVF.
 There was also more contraceptive pills and abortion than ever before which many people disagreed with
 Introduction of new technologies; Atwood was perhaps worried that this could be used to control women,
such as when the women's bank accounts were shut down
 There was a feminist uprising where people fought the traditional values of women
 There was also the anti-feminist backlash
 There was a rise of the religious right movement in America/ Reagan era

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