Date: 1985
Author: Margaret Atwood
From: The Handmaid's Tale, Bloom's Guides.
Margaret Atwood's controversial, feminist dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale(1984), features the ruminations of a female prisoner in Gilead—a theocratic dictatorship that evolves, in the near future, within America's borders. This oppressive regime measures a woman's worth solely by her reproductive capabilities (adhering to a "biology as destiny" philosophy), and women are not allowed to read, write, hold property, or have a job. In this way, Atwood deliberately magnifies and exaggerates the tradition-based ideology of America's religious right, or moral majority of the early 1980's, so as to scrutinize possible social consequences.
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