Society's Views On Family Values And Children As Reflected In The Novel The Handmaid's Tale
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Society's Views on Family Values and Children as Reflected in the novel The
In the olden days, religion and politics went hand in hand. The
church either ran the land or had a strangle hold on the people. If the
church thought there was one way to do something, one had to do as the
church requested ....
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.... the government and
the church are interchangeable. The government is what used to be called
the church, they have come together to become one unit of power. The power
of a modern day government with all the knowledge and weapons combined with
the fanaticism of a medieval based church create a dictatorship like none
other. The novel deals with the treatment of children harshly for a society
which views children as their last hope, their most valuable commodity.
Children are taken away from th ....
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