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The extremely cautionary and moving tale is of a woman in a dystopian society; a religious regime where women have been stripped of their rights and forced into service; either as Wives, concubines or housekeepers. It is told in a first person narrative and by an admittedly unreliable narrator. This device lends genuineness as well as obscures details that might derail the story. Our narrator, Offred, is introspective and capricious. She is rebellious in her thoughts, but not her actions for muc
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It was just creepy... This is the third Atwood book I've read and so far, all three have given me the creeps. Each of them has been so dark and hopeless. So near and yet, so far away from the reality / truth. Atwood weaves such a story that both reality and un-reality intertwined and this is what gives me the creepy feeling.
This book is what today could have been except that society has regressed by centuries in making women, once again, obsolete. Women were housekeepers and child-bearers, basic ...more
This book is what today could have been except that society has regressed by centuries in making women, once again, obsolete. Women were housekeepers and child-bearers, basic ...more
A haunting, dystopian story set in a moralistic, religious regime somewhere in what is now the NE United States. A regime set up by men who in spite of placing themselves in positions of privilege feel that they have the right to flaunt the rules they impose on others. Atwood's rich imagination gives us a rigidly-controlled and officially violent society from the point of view of a woman whose position/job in that society is to bear children for the privileged few. The vision of women in red hab
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