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The Handmaid's Tale: Context (Atwood (Personal life, Novel), Literary…
The Handmaid's Tale: Context
Critical response
Atwood
Personal life
Novel
Literary
Genre
Science-fiction
Science fiction conventions
Social control and power
The power of love
The need to witness - telling and retelling
Concealment and exposure
The utopia
Knowledge as power
The control of knowledge
The environment and its destruction
Individuals vs conforminty
Defined as the literature of human beings encountering change - it also functions to provide an understanding of the wider universe
Speculative Fiction
A term coined by Atwood herself
A subgenre of sci-fi that deals with the more human aspects of rapid development, rather than the technological
Whilst events in sci-fi cannot possibly happen, it is probable that events in speculative fiction can
Dystopia
An environment based off our's that appears frightening to those outside of it
Characterised by dehumanisation, totalitarian governments, environmental disasters and a general decline in the welfare of society
Dytopian conventions
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Socio-historic