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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
The world that Atwood creates is eerily close to our own, which is what makes this book so successful and also so disturbing.
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