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Quote by Coral Howell about the foundational themes in The Handmaid's Tale
"Atwood's feminist concerns are plain here but so too are her concern for basic human rights."
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Quote by Linda W. Wagner-Martin about the gileadean society
"The novel is a prediction of the horrors of cultures so frightened by normal sexuality that it codified and prescribed all such procreation, and created hierarchies of life and death around it. It is a brutal horrifying culture."
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Quote from "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition" by Amin Malak
"One of the novel's successful aspects concerns the skilful portrayal of a state that in theory claims to be founded on Christian principles. Yet in practice miserably lacks spirituality and benevolence. The state in Gilead prescribes a pattern of li
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Quote from "Ecofeminist Vision: A Study of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and The Handmaid's Tale" by K. Reshmi
"In the Gileadean patriarchy, a woman is denied the right to possess or to have control over her own body. Her body is segmented and her value is determined on the basis of her reproductive capability. In The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood suggests that the
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Quote from "Orality and Literacy as Gender-Supporting Structures in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale" by Mario Klarer about reading and writing in Gilead
"Women from all classes of society ... are excluded from any kind of written discourse. These measures aim at giving the male leadership all the advantages of a highly developed text processing culture and of using these advantages purposefully again
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Quote by Coomi S. Vevaina about Sexism and Racism in Gilead
"The republic of Gilead justifies its sexist policies with the socio-biological theory of natural polygamy and legitimises its racist and sexist policies as having a biblical precedent."
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Quote by Jessie Givner about anonymity in Gilead
"Indeed, the desire of the Gilead regime to remove name is as strong as the desire to remove faces. Just as the rules of Gilead try to eliminate mirrors, the reflection of faces, so they attempt to erase names."
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Quote by Carol Beran about Offred
"Offred's power is in language."
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"The novel is a prediction of the horrors of cultures so frightened by normal sexuality that it codified and prescribed all such procreation, and created hierarchies of life and death around it. It is a brutal horrifying culture."

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Quote by Linda W. Wagner-Martin about the gileadean society

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"One of the novel's successful aspects concerns the skilful portrayal of a state that in theory claims to be founded on Christian principles. Yet in practice miserably lacks spirituality and benevolence. The state in Gilead prescribes a pattern of li

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"In the Gileadean patriarchy, a woman is denied the right to possess or to have control over her own body. Her body is segmented and her value is determined on the basis of her reproductive capability. In The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood suggests that the

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"Women from all classes of society ... are excluded from any kind of written discourse. These measures aim at giving the male leadership all the advantages of a highly developed text processing culture and of using these advantages purposefully again

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