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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

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The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale and The Road are both about dystopian societies that are extremely repressive of their main characters, who have to struggle to survive in the face of great odds. Unlike The...

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The Handmaid's Tale

The most obvious similarity between the two books is that both The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World have a future setting. They both take place in a time when people have given up on current...

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Both The Handmaid's Tale and The Catcher in the Rye explore themes of societal control and individual struggle. In The Handmaid's Tale, the regime imposes strict control over women, while in The...

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In both "The Handmaid's Tale" and The Stranger, individuals face societal constraints that limit genuine autonomy. Meursault's lack of emotional expression and existential detachment in The Stranger...

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The Handmaid's Tale

Both novels use first-person narrators. The writing and narration of The Handmaid’s Tale contribute to the dystopian vision because the female narrator emphasizes the strict social controls and her...

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