If you haven't, you should. It's basically a story of how women are stripped of all rights and used as breeders. I found it a little disturbing.What did you think?
2006-11-15 02:30:58 · 9 answers · asked by drammy22 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
i know this book like the back of my hand! i love atwood, you should read oryx and crake, thats even better but not really with any of the proto femist views. i love the moral dilemmas of this science fiction and how it is not to distant from our own future. i like the way atwood has a file of actually newspaper clippings for her novel which shows that they are a possible reality of our future.
i like the rebbellion and the large amount of relious symbolism associated with the american bible belt, that in the book have undermined themselves leaving serina joy in a subordinate position she does not want, and which could happen to the american religious right that exists today! i also like the rebellion by the figures of authority, its ace
2006-11-15 02:38:52 · answer #1 · answered by judith c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the more so because of the possiblity that this stuff could really happen.
If you liked The Handmaid's Tale, try Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, The Fifith Sacred Thing by Starhawk, and WOman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy...
2006-11-15 12:27:59 · answer #2 · answered by Ms. Switch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have not read this novel yet, but it is the very next one on my list. Yes, I really do have a list...well it's actually the syllabus from my Novels class, but it counts as a list. I have heard wonderful things about it, and can not wait to read it.
2006-11-15 15:56:28 · answer #3 · answered by imhalf_the_sourgirl_iused_tobe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love her books. That was my first. All of them make you think about your beliefs and about society in general. She seems to have lots of insights that we can all relate to, women that is. Read more of her books, I think you'll find them interesting.
2006-11-15 13:44:37 · answer #4 · answered by MUD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women do breed better than men, but to be stripped of rights?
I have read this book. I agree disturbing.
2006-11-15 10:35:42 · answer #5 · answered by 12 Knight 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I did find it disturbing. Also, I found it to be far more graphic than I expected O_o
2006-11-15 11:00:28 · answer #6 · answered by Elven 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did not like this book. I preferred her latest novel.
2006-11-15 15:58:22 · answer #7 · answered by I'm Trying 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found it tiresome, cliched, and a poor example of dystopian literature.
2006-11-15 14:52:54 · answer #8 · answered by Blaargh_42 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What did you think?
2006-11-15 10:38:53 · answer #9 · answered by Malik 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋