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How does the theocracy in Gilead explain and justify its patriarchal authoritarian control overpeople, and how does it put it into practice? How does it change the lives of women, such asOffred, who remember life before the theocracy?Discuss

Choose one of the following questions: • Unlike the earlier texts in our course, The Handmaid’s Tale is by a female writer and features afemale protagonist. How does this contribute to our understanding and broaden our perspectiveof literary representations of dystopia? • How does the theocracy in Gilead explain and justify its patriarchal authoritarian control […]