Literary Criticism on "The handmaid's Tale"

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1. Dan Geddes points out that Margaret Artwood paints the picture of the utopian society in a negative light. That's something that is not usually done. Perhaps Artwood uses this technique to bring out the irony of a flawed utopian society.

2. I never thought of the novel as a negative utopian story. I have always heard that there is no such thing as being too perfect, but this article helps me to realize that Artwood's novel was an example of what could happen if society decides to take perfection to the extreme.