The Handmaid's Tale

Apr 26, 2007 · In other words, Atwood administers in doses the assaulting shocks to our sensibilities of a grim dystopian nightmare: initially, the narrative voice, distant and almost diffidently void of any emotions, emphasises those aspects of frugality and solemnity imposed by the state, then progressively tyranny and corruption begin to unfold piecemeal. ................
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