Handmaids Tale Critics Flashcards
1
Q
Weiss
A
“Offred is guilty of complacency”
2
Q
Ketterer
A
Many of the features of Gilead are familiar to the reader of dystopian fiction
3
Q
Howell
A
“Atwoods feminist concerns are plain”
4
Q
Beran
A
“Offreds power is in language”
5
Q
Ehreinreich
A
“Gilead is a fortress of the patriarchy”
6
Q
Gray
A
Atwoods novel lacks the direct, chilling plausibility of 1984 and BNW
7
Q
Daniels
A
Every step… every move is observed, reported… or approved
