Handmaids Tale

• dedication Mary webster ( ancestor puritan settler hanged as witch 1665 still alive after lynching ) Perry Miller (American intellectual historian taught her at harvard ) - A04:1995 half hanged Mary “ I was hanged… living alone” “breasts “and “sweet pair” “ a weedy farm in my own name” independent women! Survival narrative! A05 :David Issacs ‘ survival that interests Atwood more than oppression’
• puratism

  -     A05:  ‘ Atwood is inventing a grim American future by reaching into its past’ David Issacs 

  -      A03: puritans’ mirrors, beauty cosmetics, reading writing, bible read to them banned 1970s/80s return to traditional value reaction to second word feminism 

  -       Serena joy embodies Phyllis Schlafly , “portraits of immense suppression” page 79 puritan ancestors imagery of constraint/ restriction eg verb “pinched” 
• • "The New Right" Conservative movement rose as a response to legal changes such as Roe vs Wade Influenced by the right wing presidency of Ronald ReaganHe emphasised conservatism and his belief in 'family values', alluding to the traditional, heterosexual, nuclear family. He appealed to the white, working class Americans