Summary Of The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

Broken Age: Critiquing Patriarchy and Empowering Women through Play The recent Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a feminist dystopia, otherwise known as a bad place for women, has caused quite the frenzy. And, you know, rightfully so—the adaptation captures an anxiety many women face in an extreme patriarchal world: the right to control her own body. I won’t spoil too much for you, but the cinematography and light/shadows are strategic, designed to demonstrate all the ways that women’s bodies and subjectivity are under siege. There are many interesting and important feminist dystopias in written and television/film form, which I absolutely love, but also as a lover of video games, I tend to wonder about the representation