Dystopian Elements in The Handmaid's Tale
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- الانزلاق: 1
- PEOPLE RESTRICTED FROM INDEPENDENT THOUGHT / ACTION
- Women were not allowed to own property or hold jobs in the early days of the regime. From there, they were segregated into different classes, and they were not allowed to move freely into other countries, many families were split up, and they were not allowed to shirk their duties. Everyone had to be careful of what they said, because they could be turned in for treason.
- الانزلاق: 2
- GOVERNMENT IS OPPRESSIVE
- The government restricts access to food, local areas, and travel with the use of food tokens, passcards, and checkpoints. The government requires Commanders' households with Handmaids complete The Ceremony each month.Black vans ride around and pick up people who are accused of treason. They hang the bodies on a Wall for public display.
- الانزلاق: 3
- SETTING IS FUTURISTIC, OR IN A FICTIONAL UNIVERSE
- CANADA
- The Colonies
- THE REPUBLIC OF GILEAD
- The setting is not futuristic until the end of the novel; however, at the time of the writing of the novel, this does take place sometime in the future-- the 1990s. The Western Hemisphere has fundamentally changed; the United States of America no longer exists, replaced by the Republic of Gilead.
- الانزلاق: 4
- ELEMENTS OF CONFORMITY, OR EXTREME EQUALITY
- All classes of people are expected to wear the same clothing that corresponds to their class or duty. People were expected to greet each other with pious sayings, which assumed that everyone had converted to this particular sect of Christianity.
- الانزلاق: 5
- GOVERNMENT PORTRAYS SOCIETY AS A UTOPIA
- The Republic of Gilead does allow tourists to come and view the society as the example of the society that is doing things right. When the Japanese tourists ask Offred if she is happy, she is expected to say yes.
- الانزلاق: 6
- PROTAGONIST WISHES TO RESTORE PEOPLE TO A CONVENTIONAL LIFE
- Offred holds out hope that her husband, Luke, is still alive and that together they will be able to save their daughter one day. She does make the tapes which later become the transcript "The Handmaid's Tale", possibly in hope that it can be used for the Resistance.
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