It could never happen here
May. 13th, 2003 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zyzylyThere was a story on NPR yesterday afternoon about Margaret Atwood's book The Handmaid's Tale being made into an opera and performed in St. Paul, Minnesota. I read the book when it first came out, and had pretty much forgotten the details of it.
It takes place in the near future, in an America that has become a male-dominated theocracy, where civil liberties no longer exist. Pollution levels have gotten so bad that most women have become infertile. The fertile ones are "handmaids", existing only to bear children to the ruling class.
Atwood said at the time she wrote it that she doubted it could ever actually happen, because the events that brought about the change in government in the story were so unlikely--the destruction of the White House, the Capitol, and the Statue of Liberty by some sort of a terrorist attack.
Did I mention it is a work of fiction?
addendum: the book is much better than the movie.
It takes place in the near future, in an America that has become a male-dominated theocracy, where civil liberties no longer exist. Pollution levels have gotten so bad that most women have become infertile. The fertile ones are "handmaids", existing only to bear children to the ruling class.
Atwood said at the time she wrote it that she doubted it could ever actually happen, because the events that brought about the change in government in the story were so unlikely--the destruction of the White House, the Capitol, and the Statue of Liberty by some sort of a terrorist attack.
Did I mention it is a work of fiction?
addendum: the book is much better than the movie.
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Date: 2003-05-13 03:08 pm (UTC)The book is better though. Damn, it's been years and years since I read that book.
Didn't it come out about circa 1988?
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Date: 2003-05-15 10:45 am (UTC)Bonjour ...
Just wanted to drop a courtesy note to say that I came somehow to your Journal read some of it and liked what I read. So here's adding your name to my list.
Like you I feel it is very exciting to discover people thru' their writings and probably much deeper and intimately than one would think ! a strange process, this LJ.
Also liked the idea of seeing neatly who's your friends !
See you again. Claudie
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Date: 2003-05-15 01:22 pm (UTC)Mike