加拿大作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德(Margaret Atwood)于1985年创作的反乌托邦小说《使女的故事》(The Handmaid’s Tale)则被改编成电视剧搬上荧屏。而由李安执导、改编自另一位加拿大作家扬·马特尔(Yann Martel)同名小说的《少年派的奇幻漂流》(Life of Pi)曾在第85届奥斯卡颁奖典礼上斩获四项大奖,成为一代人心中的经典。
In Divergent, disabled people are never seen; at best, they are implied to be factionless and homeless, left at the side of the road (Duyvis). Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale discards disability right away; “babies born with disabilities are called ‘unbabies,'” and put away qu...
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Atwood, Margaret. “Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet.” 2009. The Guardian. Summary “Time Capsule” has five sections, called “ages.” They are narrated for the most part from a first-person plural perspective—a collective “we” responsible for the actions the story relates. The ...
'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' Guardian Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means ...
physical books might not even be part of everyday life, and The Future Library is including a printing press with the manuscripts to ensure the anthology can actually be printed. Atwood even thinks a paleo-anthropologist might be needed to decipher parts of her text. She says to theGuardian:...
“Margaret [Atwood] has very much covered how bad it can get, so we don’t need a lesser writer doing that,” Alderman says. “I’m interested in the most radical ideas about how we can make things better, and what are the avenues we can pursue.”– from the AP interview ...
your dreams quite like The Handmaid’s Tale has … It’s as relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it, in Berlin, in 1985. And while all this continues to be real, we need The Handmaid’s Tale – to keep reminding, and resonating, and ringing. Dong, dong, dong.’ Guardian ...
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