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atwood was born…
at the start of ww2 and grew up in rural canada
although she had been interested in literature from a young age…
she did not attend a formal school until she was 12
what university did she study at?
harvard
how did this influence handmaids tale?
it is the setting of the novel
what did she study as part of her degree?
puritanism which may have influenced the political and religious overtones of handmaids
who heavily influenced atwoods work?
george orwell
how?
she read animal farm for the first time when she was 9 and believed it made her more aware of the world around her
what is a dystopia?
an unjust state characterised by surveillance, strict social stratification and the elimination of individual identity
gilead takes this further as…
it is a theocratic state as well as a totalitarian one
atwood was inspired by male dystopias but…
wanted to challenge the conventions of the genre by writing a female dystopia
what happened to berlin/germany in the aftermath of ww2?
it was split into a capitalist section and a communist one
to prevent people from crossing over to west berlin…
the berlin wall was built in 1961
handmaids tale was written in…
1984 whilst atwood was living in berlin on a grant which funded creatives
how might gilead have been inspired by atwoods time in berlin/visits behind the iron curtain?
it is a paranoid state where loyalty is ensured by surveillance and violence