Handmaid Critics And Quotes

Question 1

“Testifying”

Answer 1

Victim shaming for sexual assault

Question 2

Political

Answer 2

Reagan and Thatcher
Revival of right wing in west
Emergence of Christian fundamentalism in response to 60s sexual revolution
Removal of women’s right by Islamic extremists in Iran

Question 3

Atwood’s own experiences

Answer 3

of surveillance and repression in east Germany

Question 4

Cold War

Answer 4

Nuclear fears

MAD

Question 5

Literary

Answer 5

20th centrifuged dystopia spurred by Huxley’s BNW and Orwell’s 84

Question 6

Fags

Answer 6

AIDS epidemic

Stigma around homos

Question 7

Abortion

Answer 7

1970s attacks on clinics as violent promotion of forced pregnancy and child bearing

Question 8

Feminism 1

Answer 8

Focus on women, condenses historical and current female oppression.

Question 9

Feminism 2

Answer 9

Demonstrates wrongs inflicted when women are valued purely for their physicality

Question 10

Feminism 3

Answer 10

However men oppressed too (restricted in freedom of belief, speech, mvmnt and expression)

Question 11

Environmentalist 1

Answer 11

Pollution causing infertility (falling birth rates) and deformities (unbabies)

Question 12

Environmentalist 2

Answer 12

Danger of biological and nuclear war⤵️
Nuclear wasteland (colonies)

Question 13

Grace

Answer 13

Offred’s autobiography ➡️ “desperate struggle to construct her being across all but unbridgeable, violent severing her time before and after Gilead”

Question 14

Atwood

Answer 14

“This book is not anti religious” against its use for tyranny