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The Nightmarish World of Gilead—An Analysis of the Dystopian World in The Handmaid’s Tale

  • SHI X
DEStech Transactions on Social Science, Education and Human Science (2017) (icesd)
DOI: 10.12783/dtssehs/icesd2017/11649
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Abstract

The Handmaid's Tale by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is one of her most popular novels. It's a dystopian novel criticizing the current society. This paper offers an analysis of the novel from the perspective of dystopia, revealing women's fate as well as their resistance against power in the nightmarish world of Gilead.

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SHI, X.-J. (2017). The Nightmarish World of Gilead—An Analysis of the Dystopian World in The Handmaid’s Tale. DEStech Transactions on Social Science, Education and Human Science, (icesd). https://doi.org/10.12783/dtssehs/icesd2017/11649

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