Dystopian features

Question 1

Eradication of the family and deploy continuing efforts to keep it from re-establishing itself

Answer 1

Handmaid’s can’t keep their children
Luke and Offred and their daughter is forced to separate
Jennine baby is taken and named by the Wife
Women can’t choose who they are with
To get pregnant is by rape

Question 2

Wrestles with the complex relations between politics and mass culture

Answer 2

The society was formed upon the dying infertility rates.
Additional features are wanting to bring back its Christen routes, protect women, and men were bored

Question 3

An undesirable or frightening community/society

Answer 3

Reverts back to the patriarchal norms
Women have no power
Typical nuclear family structure is gone
Can no longer be gay or a nun
Can be killed for presumably being guilty of committing a crime or sent to the colonies
Unknown what happens to those in the Centre unless within your community e.g. never know the ending of Moira
If you cannot perform your function/duty within society there are consequences

Question 4

Ruled a fascist regime or dictator. Often establishing a group that will lead a resistance to enact change within the society

Answer 4

Commander and Serena Joy being co-founders
The Eyes and the guards enforcing the regime
MayDay acting as the rebellion
Underground Femaleroad

Question 5

Typically reflect contemporary socio-political realities and extrapolate worse case scenarios as warning for necessary social change or caution

Answer 5

Fear of a declining birth rate- China
Fear of totalitarian regime
A warning against using religion as a justification for these regime
Highlights the issues of a patriarchal society

Question 6

Reflect the concerns and fear of its contemporaneous culture

Answer 6

New Right- organized prayer in school
Fear of declining birth rates
Fear of totalitarian regimes

Question 7

Discourage or suppress accomplishment

Answer 7

Atypical
Janine is praised for having a baby in the eyes of Gilead
The Commander will likely receive a promotion
Janine will no longer go to the colonies as she has fulfilled her duty

Question 8

Isolate their characters from all aspects of the natural world

Answer 8

Atypical
While the characters are in a town like setting they are emotionally isolated
Isolated form the outside world as seen by the tourists

Question 9

Negative effects of new technology

Answer 9

Atypical
Rather than new technology the problems are from past historical events such as the Holocaust, colonies, witch trials, persecution if gay, persecution if the wrong religion