Historic Context Flashcards
Slavery
- “children of ham”= represents the black population and are displaced from society
-they are tattoed and severely punished
AIDS
- first recognisewd in the early 80s
-by the end of 1985 every region in the world had repoterded cases
Nuclear Planta Accidents
Prior to publication the most serious had been the “There Mile Planta” incidente in America
Romanian Children
-Pieixoto mentions the banning of birth Control in Romanian as proving precedent for Gilead
-1966, under the Ceausescus dictatorship, abortion and birth Control WERE banned to increase population
Feminista movement
-Atwood draws upon the growing Idea during the 80s that women WERE somehow responsible for rape commited.
-Often victim would be put on trial for wearing provocativo clothing
White Rose
Underground Resistance against Hitler regime
Nazi Germany
-Made news wear yellow stars
-Labelled jes as less than human
-Hitler encouraged zealous admiritation of the youth (in Chap 4 Offred says @the Young ones [Guardians] are ofte the most fanatical)
Rachel and Leah Story
- teaching from the book of Genesis that formas bases of the relationship between Handmaids, Commanders and Wives
- sanctioned adultery within marrige as long as the goal is to have children
China and Cultural revolution
- youth formed the “Red Guards”
- books were also seen as incendiary devices só were burned
- Children from the middle class were taken and re-educated in comunista families
Islâmico Groups and Regimes
- Atwood visitei Afghanistan and Iran só elements of Gilead were made to mirror Sharia Law
-Now allowing women to be educated and etc…
-Taliban and ISIS fundamentalista Groups have gained increasing dominante and threat
-Filmed executions
Genre
- claims that Orwells 1984 was a direct inpiration
- classed as a “metafiction” a self-selective form of fiction that parallels real life
