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Margaret Atwood`s The Handmaid's Tale
This is a futuristic novel that takes place in northern USA sometime in the
beginning of the twenty-first century, in the oppressive and totalitarian
Republic of Gilead. The regime demands high moral, retribution and a
virtuous lifestyle. The Bible is the guiding principle. As a result of the
sexual freedom, free abortion and a high increase of venereal diseas ....
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.... within a distopian society comprised of a
community riddled by despair. Though she is not physically tortured, the
overwhelming and ridiculously powerful government mentally enslaves her.
Offred lives in a horrific society, which prevents her from being freed.
Essentially, the government enslaves her because she is a female, and she
is fertile. Offred's reminisces about the way life used to be by
remembering stories about her husband Luke, her daughter, and her best
frie ....
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