The Handmaid's Tale

Apr 26, 2007 · Atwood is constantly aware of opposites….self/other, subject/object, male/female, nature/man….and of the need to accept and work within them. (Sherrill Grace) Atwood has been concerned in her fiction with the painful psychic warfare between men and women, (but) in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale, a futuristic satire, she casts subtlety aside ... ................
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