Handmaids Tale Part 2: Crash Course Literature #404
This week, John Green continues to teach you about Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction, The Handmaid's Tale. In this installment, we're looking at Atwood's desire to tell a story from a female...
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I’m John Green and this is Crash Course Literature. So some of you might be familiar with Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale from the Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss, which is a great show. It’s especially enjoyable if your favorite emotional experiences are fear, loathing, and waking nightmares. But the book is even better. Now, that’s not always the case--the movie Die Hard was better than the book it was based on; The Fault in Our Stars was a very good film--but it is true of the Handmaid’s Tale. So read it! OK, so last time, we discussed the historical events that influenced Atwood as well as why she characterizes her novel as speculative fiction. Today, I wanna focus on the narrative’s perspective--or perspectives. Although ...
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I’m John Green and this is Crash Course Literature. So some of you might be familiar with Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale from the Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss, which is a great show. It’s especially enjoyable if your favorite emotional experiences are fear, loathing, and waking nightmares. But the book is even better. Now, that’s not always the case--the movie Die Hard was better than the book it was based on; The Fault in Our Stars was a very good film--but it is true of the Handmaid’s Tale. So read it! OK, so last time, we discussed the historical events that influenced Atwood as well as why she characterizes her novel as speculative fiction. Today, I wanna focus on the narrative’s perspective--or perspectives. Although ...
