Thesis Statements Dystopia Flashcards

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The Handmaids Tale illustrates that a dictatorship

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Can be established by playing upon peoples fears, and that once dictatorial controls are instituted, fear tactics keep the government in place

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In THT, Atwood highlights the mistreatment

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Of women that precede and follow the Gileadean era, suggesting that sexism and misogyny are deeply embedded in any scoiety

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Through Offred, Atwood highlights

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The human impulse towards complacency in order to gain security, but also emphasises the importance of resistance, regardless of cost

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Although the world of the road is one in which

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Humanities moral compass has been destoryed, readers are given jope for the future through the man and his son

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Love keeps us

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Human as it illustrated through the love the Boy and The Man share

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