SOURCE: Harris, Jocelyn. “The Handmaid's Tale as a Re-Visioning of 1984.” In Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society, edited by George Slusser, Paul Alkon, Roger Gaillard, and Danièle Chatelain, pp. 267-79. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1999.
In the following essay, Harris examines parallels between Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, asserting that Atwood's novel is a critique of George Orwell's treatment of women in his works.
This is a free excerpt of 73 words. There are 4,886 words (approx.
16 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our Dystopias in Contemporary Literature: Critical Essay by Jocelyn Harris Access Pass.
