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What is the significance of the pathetic fallacy used throughout the novel?

The ever-increasing heat represents the suffocating nature of Gilead

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What wave of feminism was prominent when Atwood wrote this novel?

Second wave

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Why is Atwood's ancestors important to the context of THT?

They were puritans and Gilead is modeled in the puritanical, theocratic society

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Where did Atwood start writing this novel? Why is it important?

Berlin - she could witness the totalitarian regime of the USSR first hand

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What type of dystopian control does Gilead use?

Theocracy

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Why could you argue that Offred is an unreliable narrator?

She has limited knowledge of the events she's narrating; she has strong emotional involvement making the narration subjective; she doesn't always tell the truth

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What kind of narrator is Offred?

Homodiegetic

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Name three conventions of dystopian literature

Propaganda, restriction, constant surveillance, dehumanised state, conform to uniform expectations, illusion of a utopia

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What does Mary McCarthy compare a dystopian storyworld to in her review of THT?

We are warned, by seeing our present selves in a distorting mirror, of what we may be turning into if current trends are allowed to continue

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What term would you use to describe a shift in time where the narrator recounts events from an earlier time frame?

Analepsis

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List three motifs in the novel

Doubles/reflections, flowers & eggs

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What narrative viewpoint does Atwood use and how can you link this to the dystopian genre?

Restricted narrative viewpoint which emphasises how information is restricted to Offred

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