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Science (anti -science ideology (restriction on knowledge, chemistry lab…
Science
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in gilead, a limited use of science
doctors are not allowed to be present at birth, only women can be sterile -> this shows the religious and patriarchal triumph over science in Gilead
Atwood limits her use of science to keep the novel realistic, the futuristic machinery of many dystopian or fantasy themed novels is not present here
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science is connected to enlightenment era which was before the Romantic Era (when the novel was written)
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victor Frankenstein claims that if his father would have been a bit smarter, none of the troubles would have happened.
My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. (2.9)
Against nature, "I pursued nature to her hiding places" (p.52)
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