![]() ![]() The Republic of Gilead whose outlines are here sketched out.Īnother reader, less peculiar than myself, might confess to a touch of apathy regarding credit cards (instruments of social control), but I have always been firmly against them and will go to almost any length to avoid using Yet the book just does not tell me what there is in our present mores that I ought to watch out for unless I want the United States of America to become a slave state something like A fresh postfeministĪpproach to future shock, you might say. Us females to our ''place'' - which, however, will have undergone subdivision into separate sectors, of wives, breeders, servants and so forth, each clothed in the appropriate uniform. A standoff will have been achieved vis-a-vis the Russians, and our own country will be ruled by right-wingers and religious fundamentalists, with males restored to the traditional role of warriors and It is an effect, for me, almost strikingly missing from Margaret Atwood's very readable book ''The Handmaid's Tale,'' offered by the publisher as a ''forecast'' of what we may have in store for us in the That was the effect of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four,'' with its scaryĭating, not 40 years ahead, maybe also of ''Brave New World'' and, to some extent, of ''A Clockwork Orange.'' WeĪre warned, by seeing our present selves in a distorting mirror, of what we may be turning into if current trends are allowed to continue. Surprised recognition, even, enough to administer a shock. Urely the essential element of a cautionary tale is recognition.
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