The Handmaid's Tale Questions on Fertility
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The symbolism and significance of the red tulips in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In The Handmaid's Tale, the red tulips symbolize fertility and the hope of new life in a repressive society. They also represent the blood and violence underlying the regime's control over women. The...
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What caused infertility in Gilead in The Handmaid's Tale?
Though Atwood never provides a specific answer as to what caused infertility in Gildead in The Handmaid's Tale, in a fictitious historical note at the end of the book, a future commentator speculates...
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What are similarities between The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World?
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...