The Handmaid's Tale Critical Quotes

Atwood

Margaret Atwood

'The Handmaids Tale is a slight twist on the society we have now'

Paul Gray

'The long awaited feminist Dystopia'

Lee Thompson

'The Aunts wear army khaki without veils reminiscent of the fascistic brownshirts of WW2'

Heidi Macpherson

'Fear of betrayal and inculcated self surveillance keep the handmaids from speaking out'

Carol Ann Howells

'Survival narrative told within the confines of a patriarchal system'

Carol Ann Howells

'Gilead is a totalitarian regime run on Patriarchal lines from the old testament'

Carol Ann Howells

'Individual freedom of choice has been outlawed and everyone has been drafted into the service of the state'

Gina Wisker

'There is no sisterhood only division and disempowerment'

Carol Ann Howells

'Under threat of erasure Offred fights for her phycological and emotional survival'

Gina wisker

'In Atwood's novel, language is coded, thoughts policed and all sexual freedom has been lost'

Barbara Ehnreich

'feminist utopia'

Carol Beran

‘Offred’s power is language’