Handmaids Tale Context Flashcards

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Who is serena joy based on?

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Phyllis Schaffly- TV personality- Televangelism

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Atwood criticises radicalism

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Through the character of Offreds mother

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Puritans

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Atwood studies American puritans who went to America for a theocracy- Gilead is much like a Puritan society- autonomous to other societies

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Ronald ragen

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Push back of women’s rights
Atomic family
Patriarchal gender roles
Restricted laws on abortion
1981 closed the office of domestic violence
Christian fundamentalist who used the bible to shape law
Murders related to sexual assault and domestic violence increased

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Maos China

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Loyalty to the state
University life ends
Books burnt

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Nuclear scare

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Cold War- Atwood is an environmentalist

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Infertility

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AIDS epidemic

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Afghanistan and Iran

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Atwood went and observed fundamentalist societies
Imposition of public executions
Atwood criticises justice system

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Hitler and the Nazis

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Dehumanisation- you have to make an it

Hitlers youth movement- try to make handmaiden tabula rasa and re educate them

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Slavery

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Abolished in 1865 but had been a way of life for years

Gilead- children of ham deported chap 14

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Phillis Schlaffly

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Radical televangelist representative of the character serena joy

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Feminism

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Take back the night movement

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Nazi setting

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Colonies are the ghettos and concentration camps

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