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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

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The Handmaid's Tale

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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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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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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