HANDMAIDS
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- What if?The Handmaid's Tale
- Another topic that is discussed by Sullivan is the material that inspired Atwood
- The "obsession" of INFERTILITY
- Sullivan notes that infertility was the perfect theme for Atwood's distopian nightmare because it is so harrowingly possible
- It is terrifyingly powerful and almighty because of the potential it has to abolish the human race
- Sullivan notes that infertility was the perfect theme for Atwood's distopian nightmare because it is so harrowingly possible
- Harvard
- A key theme discussed by Sullivan women
- The "obsession" of INFERTILITY
- The Cuban missile crisis
- "wondering if the world was about to end"
- Another topic that is discussed by Sullivan is the material that inspired Atwood
- The result would inevitably be a "totalitarian-ism takeover"
- "What would happen when infertility rates reached epidemic proportion?"
- It is terrifyingly powerful and almighty because of the potential it has to abolish the human race
- society would inevitably be dominated by controlling leaders in charge of governing reproduction
- "Those in power would seek to secure control over reproduction"
- "Women would become valuable possessions"
- Fertility would have more worth and desire than money
- "If the wives of the elite were infertile, then substitutes would have to be found"
- Fertility would have more worth and desire than money
- "If the wives of the elite were infertile, then substitutes would have to be found"
- "What would happen when infertility rates reached epidemic proportion?"
- "Those in power would seek to secure control over reproduction"
- Fertility would have more worth and desire than money
- Genesis
- After reading Genesis , Atwood was inspired by the story of Sarah;s handmaid
- The story of the Handmaid was a perfect description and title of what her novel represented
- Another topic that is discussed by Sullivan is the material that inspired Atwood
- The "obsession" of INFERTILITY
- Sullivan notes that infertility was the perfect theme for Atwood's distopian nightmare because it is so harrowingly possible
- Sullivan notes that infertility was the perfect theme for Atwood's distopian nightmare because it is so harrowingly possible
- Harvard
- A key theme discussed by Sullivan women
- The "obsession" of INFERTILITY
- Religion
- After reading Genesis , Atwood was inspired by the story of Sarah;s handmaid
- A young girl who was used as a "reproductive vessel"
- After reading Genesis , Atwood was inspired by the story of Sarah;s handmaid
- The story of the Handmaid was a perfect description and title of what her novel represented
- After reading Genesis , Atwood was inspired by the story of Sarah;s handmaid
- Religion
- war and terror
- The Berlin Wall
- "wondering if the world was about to end"
- The Berlin Wall
- see pages 854-855
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