Critical Views

Question 1

Erika Gottlieb

Answer 1

‘Since the dystopian regime denies its subjects free will, the central characters cannot be made responsible for his or her ultimate failure or defeat in the repressive system that overpowers individuals’.

Question 2

Reshmi - Ecofeminist vision: A study of Atwood’s surfacing and the Handmaids Tale. Choices are too many.

Answer 2

‘Atwood suggests that the society of today where choice are too many may lead to a totalitarian future that prohibits choice’.

Question 3

Angela La Flen

Answer 3

‘Atwood suggests that not only civil liberties but humanity itself is threatened by an increasingly degraded and dehumanizing culture.

Question 4

Carol Beran

Answer 4

‘Offred’s power is in language’.

Question 5

Greene

Answer 5

‘The Handmaids Tale offers a horrific vision of things to come based on the exploration of things as they are’.

Question 6

Rebecca Stowickzs

Answer 6

‘Women are shown to be, “not universally submissive”.

Question 7

Rebecca Stowickzs

Answer 7

‘Serena Joy and Aunts are opposites of feminism’

Question 8

Coral Howell

Answer 8

‘Atwood’s feminist’s concerns are plain here but so too are her basic concern for human rights’

Question 9

Roohollah Roozbeh

Answer 9

“Stand as a symbol of the proletariat, subjugated by the bourgeoisie to the point of slavery, harshly indoctrinated […] and are denied basic freedoms”