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𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 The Handmaid’s Tale 𝘣𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘈𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥
𝘋𝘢𝘺 9 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘏𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦.

Of all the doomsday fiction I’ve read, The Handmaid’s Tale is the one that seems to come into being more with each passing day. Told through the pragmatic voice of the deliberately anonymous heroine, the novel is grim but not as grim as it might be considering the subject; Atwood is a realist, not a pessimist. Overarching the horrors of Gilead is the reminder that the regime was short-lived, that tyranny is not a sustainable form of government, and that the oppressed fight back. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
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