Lee Osborne answers “Do you wish Gilead would come true?”

A Goodreads user asked this question about The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1):

Do you wish Gilead would come true?

Lee Osborne I certainly think there's a lot of American conservatives/fundamentalists who would read Gilead's public manifesto and approve of it. I think Atwood's…moreI certainly think there's a lot of American conservatives/fundamentalists who would read Gilead's public manifesto and approve of it. I think Atwood's genius is showing us the sleazy, hypocritical underbelly that would exist beneath the pious exterior of such a regime, however "moral" or "Biblical" it claimed to be. (less)

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