CONTEXT - The Handmaid's Tale
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- CONTEXT - The Handmaid's Tale
- Atwood wrote the book shortly after Presidents and Prime Ministers were elected
- Margaret Thatcher, GB
- AIDS
- Was an epidemic, now a pandemic
- AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- Caused by the Human Immunodefici--ency Virus (HIV)
- In America it was recognised and HIV was identified in the early 1980s, shortly before Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale
- Nuclear-Plant Accidents
- Romanian Children
- In Historical Notes, Pieixoto mentions the banning of birth control in Romania. Romania was under a Communist leadership
- President Ceausescu wanted to increase his country's population and increase the fertility rate
- From 1967 to 1990, birth control and abortions were severely restricted
- Romanian women of the child-bearing age were each expected to have five children
- As a consequence, thousands of unwanted children were born and many thousands abandoned
- Atwood uses this real disaster to make her readers consider Gilead's laws on childbirth and its anti-abortion stance
- In Historical Notes, Pieixoto mentions the banning of birth control in Romania. Romania was under a Communist leadership
- Homosexuality
- In Gilead, homosexuals are punished
- This is shown in chapter 8: Offred sees the bodies of those hanged for Gender Treachery
- This is shown in chapter 38: Moira tells Offred that other so-called Gender Traitors are sent to the Colonies
- in the1980s, the outbreak of HIV occurred. The epidemic was commonly linked to gay men, and homophobia was at its peak
- In Gilead, homosexuals are punished
- R a p e
- In chapter 7, Atwood introduces the topic of attitudes to r a p e, a burning issue for a feminist like Moira. Moira writes a paper on date r a p e, and Offred teases Moira, suggesting that it isn't an important problem: 'You're so trendy. It sounds like some kind of dessert. Date R a p é'.
- In chapter 13, Offred tells us about the deliberate humiliation at the Red Centre of Janine, who was gang-***** and made by Aunt Helena to believe it was her own fault. She tells the other handmaids that Janine must have 'led them on'.
- The handmaids are made to point at Janine chanting 'her fault'. Atwood indicated that **** is by no means a matter for laughter, nor is it an act allowed by God, as Aunt Helena insists, to 'teach her a lesson'.
- Atwood wrote the book shortly after Presidents and Prime Ministers were elected
- Polygamy
- CONTEXT - The Handmaid's Tale
- Atwood wrote the book shortly after Presidents and Prime Ministers were elected
- Margaret Thatcher, GB
- AIDS
- Was an epidemic, now a pandemic
- AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- Caused by the Human Immunodefici--ency Virus (HIV)
- In America it was recognised and HIV was identified in the early 1980s, shortly before Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale
- Nuclear-Plant Accidents
- Romanian Children
- In Historical Notes, Pieixoto mentions the banning of birth control in Romania. Romania was under a Communist leadership
- President Ceausescu wanted to increase his country's population and increase the fertility rate
- From 1967 to 1990, birth control and abortions were severely restricted
- Romanian women of the child-bearing age were each expected to have five children
- As a consequence, thousands of unwanted children were born and many thousands abandoned
- Atwood uses this real disaster to make her readers consider Gilead's laws on childbirth and its anti-abortion stance
- In Historical Notes, Pieixoto mentions the banning of birth control in Romania. Romania was under a Communist leadership
- Homosexuality
- In Gilead, homosexuals are punished
- This is shown in chapter 8: Offred sees the bodies of those hanged for Gender Treachery
- This is shown in chapter 38: Moira tells Offred that other so-called Gender Traitors are sent to the Colonies
- in the1980s, the outbreak of HIV occurred. The epidemic was commonly linked to gay men, and homophobia was at its peak
- In Gilead, homosexuals are punished
- R a p e
- In chapter 7, Atwood introduces the topic of attitudes to r a p e, a burning issue for a feminist like Moira. Moira writes a paper on date r a p e, and Offred teases Moira, suggesting that it isn't an important problem: 'You're so trendy. It sounds like some kind of dessert. Date R a p é'.
- In chapter 13, Offred tells us about the deliberate humiliation at the Red Centre of Janine, who was gang-***** and made by Aunt Helena to believe it was her own fault. She tells the other handmaids that Janine must have 'led them on'.
- The handmaids are made to point at Janine chanting 'her fault'. Atwood indicated that **** is by no means a matter for laughter, nor is it an act allowed by God, as Aunt Helena insists, to 'teach her a lesson'.
- Atwood wrote the book shortly after Presidents and Prime Ministers were elected
- In Historical Notes, Pieixoto refers to the use of Handmaids as a form of 'simultaneous polygamy' like that practised 'in the...state of Utah'.
- Atwood refers to the real, and still flourishing group, known as the Mormons
- CONTEXT - The Handmaid's Tale
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