At the same time, a resistance movement begins to challenge the regime…. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population. The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read.
She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now. Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, "The Handmaid's Tale" is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
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Icy suffocation is the preferred option over enforced incubation in harness. This series makes me want to be a vegetarian. Finally at her destination, the kindly lorry driver gets a hug for his trouble as June is greeted by Nick, who was on her side after all.
It is Reservoir Dogs levels of appalling, but necessary. The music so often sounds like June spinning something from her record collection on her internal jukebox, like a defiant teen. I guess, in this context, anything goes.
Pregnant ladies need to go to the loo a LOT. But did we need to see the act itself? Is a post-Atwood story going to rely this heavily on physical and mental hardship as a replacement for narrative complexity? I hope not. When June torched her red dress, I worried about the plume of smoke being seen by the guards.
It looked cool, but so dangerous. Gilead It is back to the sludge-green sterility and chilly sunbeams of religious oppression. Android and Iphone.
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Offred isn't the narrator's actual name - Handmaid names contain the phrase 'of' followed by the title of this Handmaid's Commander. Each month, even when Offred is in the ideal stage in her menstrual cycle, then she has to possess impersonal, wordless sex using the Commander while Serena sits behind her, holding her fingers. Offred's independence, such as the independence of all girls, is completely limited. She is able to leave the house just on shopping excursions, the doorway to her room cannot be completely closed, and also the Eyes, Gilead's secret police force, watch her every person move.
Because Offred tells the story of the everyday life, she often slips into flashbacks, where the reader may reconstruct the events leading up to the start of the book. Offred's mom was a single mom and feminist activist. The installers of Gilead started their rise to power in an era of readily accessible porn, prostitution, and violence against women - when chemical and pollution leakage contributed to declining fertility prices.
Utilizing the army, they assassinated the president and members of Congress and started a coup, asserting that they had been taking electricity temporarily.
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