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Villiers Park Educ. Trust: Hand Maiden's Tale
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Villier's Park Education Trust considers it appropriate to instruct students to read 'The Hand Maiden's Tale'.
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The story is presented from the point of view of a woman called Offred (not her real name; it is a patronymic slave name that means "Of Fred", referring to the man she serves). The character is one of a class of individuals kept as a concubine ("handmaid") for reproductive purposes by the ruling class. In the novel's fictional epilogue, the events of the novel occur shortly after the beginning of what is called "the Gilead period." The epilogue itself is a "transcription of a Symposium on Gileadean Studies written some time in the distant future (2195)," and according to the symposium's "keynote speaker" Professor Pieixoto, he and "a colleague" Professor Knotly Wade discovered Offred's narrative recorded onto "thirty" supposedly unnumbered "cassette tapes," placed these tapes in a "probable order" and transcribed them, calling them collectively "the handmaid's tale" -- a reference to the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. Offred's narrative is disjointed in a grim, internal stream of consciousness style, out of order, and unfinished, ending abruptly when she indicates that she is about to be escorted away in a van to an unknown fate.
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025. Villiers Park Educ. Trust: Hand Maiden's Tale
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Cazzac111Description:
Villier's Park Education Trust considers it appropriate to instruct students to read 'The Hand Maiden's Tale'.
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The story is presented from the point of view of a woman c…
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