political and social protest

Question 1

the novel

Answer 1

is preoccupied with social divisions and inequality

“wives”, “marthas” and “handmaids”

Question 2

Mary McCarthy

Answer 2

Mary McCarthy believes it lacks “the destructive force of satire” and has “no satiric bite”

Question 3

Never Let Me Go

Answer 3

unlike the HMT, in NLMG Ishiguro’s characters never seek, or even consider, rebelling against the status quo