The Atlantic published a fairly long article as well: The Challenge of Margaret Atwood - With her new book—the much-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale—the Canadian author is leading a...
It's kind of funny. I read the book and found it horrifying, can't bear to watch the show, and similarly have no desire to read this followup as any form of entertainment. Two passages jumped out...
It's kind of funny. I read the book and found it horrifying, can't bear to watch the show, and similarly have no desire to read this followup as any form of entertainment.
Two passages jumped out at me:
On the show, the couple who imprison Offred as their Handmaid, Commander Waterford and his wife, Serena, are played by attractive actors in their forties and thirties, respectively. I’m not sure what is gained—other than, perhaps, additional viewers—by transforming them into sexy rapists.
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The breakthrough of “The Testaments” lies here, in the way it solves a problem that “The Handmaid’s Tale” created. We were all so busy imagining ourselves as Handmaids that we failed to see that we might be Aunts—that we, too, might feel, at the culmination of a disaster we created through our own pragmatic indifference.
I do somewhat fear that a portion of the audience are imagining themselves as Commanders, though I suppose I really should spend less time dwelling on what loathsome people might think.
The Atlantic published a fairly long article as well: The Challenge of Margaret Atwood - With her new book—the much-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale—the Canadian author is leading a resistance. But it’s not the one you might think.
It's kind of funny. I read the book and found it horrifying, can't bear to watch the show, and similarly have no desire to read this followup as any form of entertainment.
Two passages jumped out at me:
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I do somewhat fear that a portion of the audience are imagining themselves as Commanders, though I suppose I really should spend less time dwelling on what loathsome people might think.