Why should you read The Handmaid's Tale? - Naomi R. Mercer
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Date: 2020-08-22
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Xyz
One should not be too eager to call this novel a masterpiece, as the author, typically, just helped herself in stealing the idea (pseudo-plagiarizm) for her book from GEORGE ORWELLs classic novel 1984. Orwell wrote His MASTERPIECE in 1949 and atwood cleverly changed few aspects of her book in the attempt to camouflage her deed. Bottom line, M. Atwood is much too OVERRATED and would never consider her work as a classic literature.
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One should not be too eager to call this novel a masterpiece, as the author, typically, just helped herself in stealing the idea (pseudo-plagiarizm) for her book from GEORGE ORWELLs classic novel 1984. Orwell wrote His MASTERPIECE in 1949 and atwood cleverly changed few aspects of her book in the attempt to camouflage her deed. Bottom line, M. Atwood is much too OVERRATED and would never consider her work as a classic literature.
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Philly
I loved a handmaids tale. Its so insightful. Its so powerful. The story of feminism. And how it can be suppressed if not actively fought for. Its empowering. Margaret Atwood has a tremendous gift for storytelling. Not only is the original handmaids tale book great. But the sequel she wrote last year was great as well. I fully recommend that book as well. And really any Margaret Atwood book.
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I loved a handmaids tale. Its so insightful. Its so powerful. The story of feminism. And how it can be suppressed if not actively fought for. Its empowering. Margaret Atwood has a tremendous gift for storytelling. Not only is the original handmaids tale book great. But the sequel she wrote last year was great as well. I fully recommend that book as well. And really any Margaret Atwood book.
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Hellstrom
Why read The Handmaid's Tale?
Ask the author.
She said In Europe they ask What similes to Fascism were you drawing?
In Canada they say What kind of stressors do you think could create your dystopic world?
And in America they say How long have we got?
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Why read The Handmaid's Tale?
Ask the author.
She said In Europe they ask What similes to Fascism were you drawing?
In Canada they say What kind of stressors do you think could create your dystopic world?
And in America they say How long have we got?
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TkUSA
I find it funny how she based this off of Reagan and conservatives. it is actually reversed. It is the left that longs for control over others, no free speech and a form of government that regulates and controls every aspect of our lives.
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I find it funny how she based this off of Reagan and conservatives. it is actually reversed. It is the left that longs for control over others, no free speech and a form of government that regulates and controls every aspect of our lives.
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Aaron
Who knew the death of freedom would come from the Progressives. Maybe Atwood just left out the thought police and the capture of our institutions that corralled the populace toward a right-wing totalitarian existence.
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Who knew the death of freedom would come from the Progressives. Maybe Atwood just left out the thought police and the capture of our institutions that corralled the populace toward a right-wing totalitarian existence.
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DRDYT
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. Shirin Ibadi.
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Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. Shirin Ibadi.
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JUGAopet1
2020 >> stay home, social distancing, one and a half meters distance, closure of hospitals, face masks, coming more and more, longer and longerdystopia is ongoing, zombies obey.
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2020 >> stay home, social distancing, one and a half meters distance, closure of hospitals, face masks, coming more and more, longer and longerdystopia is ongoing, zombies obey.
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you
I absolutely love books that tell a story from the perspective of a person you wouldn't think would tell it. You think it would be told by a ruler of Gilead, or someone else.
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I absolutely love books that tell a story from the perspective of a person you wouldn't think would tell it. You think it would be told by a ruler of Gilead, or someone else.
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Rhiannn
Who else had their school force them to read this as a novel study? I have it sitting on my desk with stickynotes plastered all over it any time it mentions a motif lol
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Who else had their school force them to read this as a novel study? I have it sitting on my desk with stickynotes plastered all over it any time it mentions a motif lol
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Siti
Thanks to this video, I have gone on to read one of the most hauntingly unforgettable books I have ever read. Thank you Ted-ed for the recommendation!
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Thanks to this video, I have gone on to read one of the most hauntingly unforgettable books I have ever read. Thank you Ted-ed for the recommendation!
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