The Handmaids Tale
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood.
After a staged attack that killed the president of the united states and most of congress. A radical political group called the “Sons of Jacob” uses theonomic ideology to launch a revolution. The united states constitution is suspended, newspapers are censored, and what was formerly the United States of America is changed into a military dictatorship known as the republic of Gilead. The new regime moves quickly to consolidate its power, overtaking all other religious groups, including traditional Christian denominations. In addition, the regime reorganises society using a peculiar interpretation of some old testament ideas, and a new militarized, heirachical model of social and religious fanaticism among its newly created social classes. Above all, the biggest change is the severe limitation of people's right, especially those of women. Who are not allowed to read, write, own property, or handle money. Most significantly, women are deprived of control over their own reproductive functions.
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The Handmaids Tale was released in 1985 by McClelland and Stewart (book) and Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt (eBook) to critical acclaim,helping to cement the author Atwood as a prominent 20th century writer. The book was nominated for the 1986 Nebula and Booker awards along with the 1987 Prometheus prize and was also nominated and won the 1985 Governors General Prize and the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke award. The Handmaids tale received a squeal in 2017 called The Testament and has been adapted three times in 1990 as a movie, in 2000 as an Opera and 2017 as a multi season TV show.
I highly like the book, its is a great red and I consider it a good view of what could happen in society if/when it goes wrong. I highly recommend this book to everyone and give the book a 9.5 out of 10.
Margaret Atwood was born November 18th 1939 in Canada and is not only a novelist, but a literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist and inventor. Atwood has managed to publish 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books and two graphic novels all since 1961. Atwood's works as earned her several nominations of well known awards and has won several of them for her work including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke award and the Governor Generals awards. Many of her works have also been adapted for TV and film.
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