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LESSON 6 · Banned: Books They Tried to Silence

PAUSE TO THINK

What was Atwood's rule for content?

She included nothing humans had not already done.

Every horror in the book is drawn from real history, from Puritan theocracy to Romania's forced-birth policies under Ceaușescu. Atwood wanted no reader to dismiss Gilead as impossible.

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