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Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale describes a future North America governed by strict religious rules which only the privileged dare defy.
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Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale ( 1985 ) tells a dystopic tale of a society in which women have been systematically stripped of all liberty, and was motivated by fear of potential retrogressive effects on women's rights stemming from the anti-feminist backlash of the 1980s.
* Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale closes with a chapter set at a conference taking place some time after the events of the rest of the book, in which scholars question the authenticity of the earlier manuscript.
* 1988 Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye
A very similar phenomenon by the name " Noodie News " appears in Canadian Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel Oryx and Crake.
Related to Social SF and Soft SF are the speculative fiction branches of utopian or dystopian stories ; George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, are examples.
A number of respected writers of mainstream literature have written science fiction, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgess ' A Clockwork Orange and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
Moreover, their books often dealt with survival and the rugged Canadian environment ; these themes re-appear in other Canadian works, including Margaret Atwood's Survival.
* In Margaret Atwood's The Tent there's a short novel titled Nightingale, where the two sisters discuss the incident, and their names are reversed in it.
Margaret Atwood's novel The Blind Assassin also uses this technique.
* Tess of the d ' Urbervilles is referred to in Margaret Atwood's short story " My Last Duchess ", published in Moral Disorder ( 2006 ).
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale begins with the discovery of a footlocker full of cassette tapes in the ruins of what was once Bangor, a prominent way-station on " The Underground Femaleroad " in the dystopic Republic of Gilead.
Two years earlier he had published the first study of Margaret Atwood's feminism: Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics.
* Margaret Atwood's 1979 novel Life Before Man is set in Toronto in the late 1970s and several characters watch and sometimes comment upon the elections and sovereignist movement in Quebec.
Margaret Atwood's works allude to the Bonfire, as in her dystopian novels The Handmaid's Tale ( 1985 ) and Oryx and Crake ( 2003 ).
The crime and trial will form the basis for Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace in 1996.
The Arcadian Court also figures prominently in Margaret Atwood's novel The Blind Assassin, as the centre of Toronto's high society to which Iris Chase Griffen is introduced.
Examples include the multiple narrators ' feelings in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, the character Offred's often fragmented thoughts in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and the development of the narrator's nightmarish experience in Queen's hit song, Bohemian Rhapsody.
In Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion, Cooke argues that the characters of Peter, Lucy, and Mrs. Sims were drawn from people in Atwood's life – Peter being a fictionalized version of Atwood's boyfriend ( also an amateur photographer ) and later fiancé.
* The Republic of Gilead, the setting of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale
* Gina Wisker: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace: A Readers Guide ; Continuum: 2002: ISBN 0-8264-5706-1
* Canadian author Margaret Atwood's short story " My Last Duchess " appears in her short story anthology Moral Disorder ( 2006 ).
The season also hosted a revival of Larry Kramer's seminal AIDS play The Normal Heart ( produced by Studio 180 Theatre ), and the Toronto premiere of Margaret Atwood's The Penlopiad ( Nightwood Theatre ) which went on to win several Dora Mavor Moore Awards.
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In the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, the United States has been replaced by a theocratic totalitarian nation, the " Republic of Gilead.
* Margaret Atwood-Canadian novelist of " The Handmaid's Tale " and other works
* Janine, the previous name of Ofwarren, a fictional character from The Handmaid's Tale, a novel by Margaret Atwood
Grey defended La servante écarlate by Margaret Atwood, the French version of The Handmaid's Tale, in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004.
* 1985: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood tells the tale of a woman caught up in a fundamentalist Christian dictatorship where women are forced into a system of sexual slavery for the ruling patriarchy.
* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood ; post-nuclear Cambridge and Boston are the setting of this dystopian novel.
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Charles is also a major character in Margaret Frazer's The Maiden's Tale, a historical mystery which gives a very sympathetic fictional account of a few weeks of his life in England in the autumn of 1439, shortly before his release in 1440.
The death of Duke Humphrey is the subject of a 2003 mystery novel The Bastard's Tale, by Margaret Frazer.
* A Tale of Rosamund Gray, and old blind Margaret, 1798
* Tor Seidler, author of " A Rat's Tale ", " Mean Margaret " and " Gully's Travels "
* The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, written by Beatrix Potter, read by Margaret Rutherford
* The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, written by Beatrix Potter, read by Margaret Rutherford
* The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, written by Beatrix Potter, read by Margaret Rutherford
* The Tale of Mr. Tod, written by Beatrix Potter, read by Margaret Rutherford
* Lydgate is a character in a 2003 mystery novel The Bastard's Tale, by Margaret Frazer, which takes place in Bury St. Edmunds in 1447.
Starting with the Edgar Award-nominated The Prioress ' Tale, the Margaret Frazer pen name has been used exclusively by Gail Frazer.
Over the course of her career Margaret Dumont played in 57 films, including some minor silent work that began with A Tale of Two Cities ( 1917 ).
#" Liar's Tale "; Guest Stars: Erika Anderson, Audie England, Lorna Firman, Margaret Makinen, Peter Quartaroli, Terrence Sheahan, Paula Venice
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