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Title: Stilted Polemic
Review: When observing the puppet-characters of this novel, the strings are always visible, for they have but one reason for existing - to implant the attitudes of the author in a new generation. The far-fetched setting also has one reason for its creation - the same. Wherever the reader looks in this novel, he or she sees the uneffaced hand of the author, for this entire polemic exists exclusively as a pulpit for Margaret Atwood to pound out her bigotry against religious people. The Handmaid's Tale is the literary equivalent of Ayn Rand - but with hate instead of philosophy. As a piece of literature, it is stilted.
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