Focused Read (s) two in 3 minutes each
Margaret Atwood
(Biography here)
"The Handmaid's Tale:
Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood"
A timely, thought provoking (my words!) "Hulu original series
The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized ‘return to traditional values'. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society, Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her."
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"'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Deeply
Unsettling but Not for the Reason You Might Think
Echoes of Trump's America are there,
but the series is most compelling in its depiction of everyday
sexism.
When Hulu
released a trailer for their adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s
dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale, some conservatives didn’t
realize the series was based on a decades-old novel – they
thought it was created in response to Trump’s presidential
win.
The confusion makes some sense. Much of the show feels familiar in
today’s political climate: children being wrenched from their
parents’ arms at borders. A lesbian tortured in order, she’s
told, to cure her unnatural appetites. Women forced to
carry pregnancies after they’ve been raped.
But what makes The Handmaid’s Tale so
terrifying is not that it’s timely, but that it’s timeless. And
after watching seven episodes, what’s been keeping me up at night
isn’t the explicit horrors as much as how the show surfaces women’s
fear of what everyday sexism really means. ... "
You can read more here
TWO
“'Many people were
saying, "It can't happen here." Now, not so much': The
Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood warns the US is growing more
and more like her dystopian society...”
You can read more here
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