- Satirisation of the religious right wing through the extreme control of fertility.
- Similarities to Nazism and Hitler's ideas =

Hitler promised his followers a new Germany with a stress on family values. However, this rapidly turned into oppression of any who did not share his vision and the slaughter of those who were not of the ‘pure' Aryan race he demanded.
Perhaps most poignantly, children of ‘undesirables' in Hitler's Germany were forcibly removed from their parents, to be adopted by loyal Nazis, reminding us of Offred's lost daughter. ‘Untermenschen' - less than human.

- Similarities with Mao's China

Mao launched an appeal to those who believed in his ideas, and China's youth responded by forming the Red Guards. China's citizens found that, just as in Gilead, ‘The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical'
Intellectuals were particularly singled out for ill-treatment and University life came to an end, as it does in Gilead
Books were, as Offred comments wryly about Gilead in chapter 15, seen as ‘an incendiary device' and - except for ‘the Little Red Book', the Thoughts of Chairman Mao - were burned wholesale. Gilead too has severe restrictions on literature, and indeed on literacy

	Created by Elle Rogers over 7 years ago

A2 English (The Handmaid's Tale) Slide Set on Satire, created by Elle Rogers on 13/03/2017.