Handmaid's tale: the warnings
What is Atwood warning us about and how does she oblige us to consider it?Fundamentally, Atwood is warning us about the decrease in fertility due to pollution, food and basically the way that we live our lives. Other observations and warnings sprout from this and from our society. Essentially, the first technique used to engage the reader and make them consider the warnings is the genre; science fiction. As this ultimately is an enlarged reflection of today and it has a function of suggesting how our world could turn out to be. There are such a range of techniques used by Atwood to encourage the reader to consider warnings that focusing in on one main device may successfully portray the depth in which Handmaids Tale can be analysed. Therefore the focus of this essay is language. Firstly, the novel is written in present tense which immediately makes the science fiction touch base with the reader, it is real and can be seen as happening ‘right now.’ This is also portrayed through the description of senses and actions, which bring Offred back to the moment ‘the motor turns.’ Also, there are quite a lot of gaps within each chapter – visually representing the space in which Offred lives and is not telling the story- a sile
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Approximate Word count = 952
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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