Critics Handmaids Tale Flashcards
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‘Offred is an ordinary…
more-or-less cowardly woman’ Atwood 1985
‘Atwood’s point is that the individual…
shares responsibility for the system’ Rigney 1986
The Historical Notes…
1984
‘sound a warning’ Foley 1989
Atwood’s novel…
‘arguably took over when ‘1984’ left off’ Gulick 1991
‘Offred is the victim…
of circumstances’ Bouson 1993
‘Offred herself exercises…
power (mainly sexual) over Fred, Serena Joy and others’ Weiss 2009
‘I was perhaps…
too optimistic to end the Handmaid’s story with an outright failure’ Atwood 2012
‘I began this book…
while living in west Berlin, encircled, at that time, by the infamous Berlin Wall’ Atwood 2012
‘I wanted to try…
a dystopia from the female point of view the world according to Julia, as it were’ Atwood 2013
‘Dystopian fiction is…
prodromic’ Bradbury ??
‘A bleak dystopian world…
should encourage the reader to think critically about their own world’ Booker, 2013
In reference to dystopian fiction…
‘social criticism’ Booker, 1994
‘Dystopian societies are…
more or less thinly veiled re-figurations of a situation that already exists’ Booker 1994
‘In the 50s…
the world changed. There was a fear that the human race was threatened by its own brilliance’ J.G. Ballard
