Category: 書評 Book Reviews
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How the Dystopian Tone in The Handmaid’s Tale Resonates with Other Masterpieces: Taking Atwood, Orwell and Gibson for Instances
Even a week later, when I tried to reorganise the notes taken while reading The Handmaid’d Tale, I still could not get over the shock this astonishing, mind-boggling, spellbinding yet desperate book gave me. The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published in 1985 (Wikipedia Contributors). The story’s background is set to be…
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Sturdy Birds, Where Will You Go: on Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening was released in 1899 (Wikipedia contributors). It relates a tragic tale of a woman who ‘awakened’ from the traditional demands of motherhood and pursued her ideal life, though she failed in the end. As one of the few works focused on women’s problems, The Awakening became a milestone in the early feminist movement (Williams). In…
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