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The Handmaid's Tale

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Transcript

The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood

Summary

  • Introduction
  • I: Gilead
  • II: The woman's place
  • III: Offred's entourage
  • Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

  1. dystopian novel
  2. written in 1985 by Margaret Atwood
  3. novel set in the future in the United States
  4. adaptated in 2017 into a serie

Gilead: the environnment

  • Pollution
  • Decreased fertility
  • 1/4 born babies is able to survive
  • Land highly damaged
  • Colonies

Gilead: religion

  • everyone is christian
  • biblical phrases
  • interpretation of religious texts
  • patriarchal power
  • rejection of religious pluralism and diversity

The women's place

  • a woman = a simple body
  • deprived of sexual liberty
  • rape culture
  • prostitution
  • women not equal as men
  • women are not considered human
  • patriarchal society

Offred's entourage

  • indoctrination
  • memories
  • her daughter
  • relation with Nick
  • Ofglen
  • Moira

Conclusion

  1. The Handmaid's Tale: a dystopia
  2. facts that happened or will happen
  3. climate change
  4. feminism