The Handmaid's Tale Critic Quotes

Narrative Style

• Slipping between meanings and symbols 'erodes her sense of meaning and purpose, alienates her, and necessitates conscious efforts to anchor herself in a concrete reality'- Tim Clist 
• 'Offred's power is in language'- Carol Beran

Atwood's Message

• 'Atwood's final message is promise. The regime which attempted to annihilate hope…