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Society's Views on Family Values and Children as Reflected in the novel "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Title: Society's Views on Family Values and Children as Reflected in the novel "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Category: Literature / English
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Society's Views on Family Values and Children as Reflected in the novel "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
In the olden days, religion and politics went hand in hand. The church either ran
the land or had a strangle hold on the people. If the church thought there was one way to
do something, one had to do as the church requested or suffer great penalty. To go
against the church was to go against God, and that meant death. The king was supposed
to be chosen by God to rule the people …showed first 75 words of 1272 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1272 total…the possibility of extremists
taking us to a similar point is very real. Incidents like the Oklahoma bombing, the stand
off in Idaho with right wing radicals, and the Unibomber should show us that people with
radical ideas are willing to use force to get their views out to the public. Such shows of
force and extreme ideas are exactly how the society of Gilead was founded.
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
(Toronto: Seal Books, 1985)
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