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Essay Archive - Margaret Atwood`s The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood`s The Handmaid's Tale
This is a futuristic novel that takes place in northern USA sometime in the
beginning of the twenty-first century, in the oppressive and totalitarian
Republic of Gilead. The regime demands high moral, retribution and a
virtuous lifestyle. The Bible is the guiding principle. As a result of the
sexual freedom, free abortion and a high increase of venereal diseases at
the end of the twentieth century, many women, (and men also, but that is
forbidden to say), are sterile. The women, who are still fertile, are
recruited as Handmaids, and their only m....
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