Why Hulu's Handmaid's Tale May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era". Religion Dispatches. 25 April 2018 . Retrieved 13 March 2022. Soon the police and politicians in California are on the case. The police find no reason to suspect Ken or Parker. Parker tells Ken not to ever mention his name regarding Fay. The story is a true story based on Jessica Long (US Paralympic Champion) and her journey to being an admired and adored athlete despite her disability. In the she is named Tatiana (her given birth name) and talks about her adoption, the initial rejection as an athlete when wanting to join in the prestigious mermaid games and how others made fun of her. It talks about her parents believing in her, and finding a coach to be on her team and celebrate her differences (hi Michael Phelps "Phelpsy"). Lamey, Andy. "Platonic Corruption in the Handmaid's Tale". PhilPapers. The Philpapers Foundation . Retrieved 23 November 2023. Tennant, Colette (2019). Religion in The Handmaid's Tale: A Brief Guide. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. ISBN 9781506456317.

Dopp, Jamie (1994). "Subject-Position as Victim-Position in The Handmaid's Tale". Studies in Canadian Literature. 19 (1): 43–57. van Dijk, Teun A. (2019). "Macrostructures in discourse". Macrostructures: An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition. Routledge. p.52. ISBN 9780429657856– via Google Books. Hammer, Stephanie Barbé (1990). "The World as It Will Be? Female Satire and the Technology of Power in The Handmaid's Tale". Modern Language Studies. XX (2): 39–49. doi: 10.2307/3194826. JSTOR 3194826. I am a mother to a mermaid obsessed little girl. Just tonight even we watched Disney's "The Little Mermaid" to satisfy her need for more mermaid magic and strength. So, when I saw a story about the Mermaid with no tail, I knew I had to request an ARC to read to my daughter, and so that we could review it.Many elements of Gilead recall details from Plato's Republic. Gilead's social hierarchy of commanders, guardians, Marthas and handmaids, for example, has similarities to Plato's social hierarchy of philosopher-guardians, auxiliary-guardians and producers. Both societies also are also home to a state-based eugenics program, and see gymnasiums used as educational spaces in which women are socialized into new gender roles. The powers that be in Gilead legitimate their rule through the extensive use of propaganda, much as Plato's rulers ensure co-operation on the part of the public by propagating a noble lie. Atwood, Margaret (17 November 2001). "Taking the veil". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 January 2022 . Retrieved 1 January 2022. The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000". American Library Association. 27 March 2013. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021 . Retrieved 11 July 2021. Fitting with her statements that The Handmaid's Tale is a work of speculative fiction, not science fiction, Atwood's novel offers a satirical view of various social, political, and religious trends of the United States in the 1980s. Her motivation for writing the novel was her belief that in the 1980s, the religious right was discussing what they would do with/to women if they took power, including the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, and the Ronald Reagan administration. [14] [ failed verification] Atwood questions what would happen if these trends, and especially "casually held attitudes about women" were taken to their logical end. [15] The Handmaid's Tale". OverDrive. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021 . Retrieved 14 October 2021.

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Stein, Karen F. (Spring 1996). "Margaret Atwood's Modest Proposal: The Handmaid's Tale". Canadian Literature. 148: 57–72. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016 . Retrieved 27 March 2016– via Digital Commons, University of Rhode Island. A servant who works at the Commander's house because she is infertile. She hopes that Offred will get pregnant as she desires to help raise a child. She is friendly towards Offred and even covers up for her when she finds her lying on the floor one morning; a suspicious occurrence by Gilead's standards worthy of being reported. It is implied that a total genocide has been committed against Native Americans living in territories under the rule of Gilead. Jews were given a choice between converting to the state religion or being "repatriated" to Israel. Converts who were subsequently discovered with any symbolic representations or artifacts of Judaism were executed, and the repatriation scheme was privatized, with the result that many Jews died en route to Israel.