Point Illustration Explanation Mini-conclusion Introduction Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” is a tour de force based on speculative dystopian fiction. In the novel, Atwood creates a society run by a theocratic government, and Handmaids are recruited to repopulate the sterility struck society. It was written in 1985 and is written in a first person limited narrative stance. The protagonist of the novel is a Handmaid named Offred.

A handmaid's tale.

It Canʼt Happen Here

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Bibliography for the Study of Phillip Roth's Works

What Hitler perpetrated on Germany’s Jews with the passage in 1935 of the Nuremberg Laws is the absolute antithesis of what President Lindbergh has undertaken to do for America’s Jews through the establishment of the Office of American Absorption. The Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of their civil rights and did everything to exclude them from membership in their nation. What I have encouraged President Lindbergh to do is to initiate programs inviting Jews to enter as far into the national life as they like. (111)

Americanizing the Nuremberg Laws: Alternative-Historical Racial Reconfigurations in The Plot Against America

In an essay published in the New York Times a month prior to the release of The Plot against America, Philip Roth writes that it “would be a mistake” to “take this book as a roman a clef to the pre...

Predicting Trump and Presenting Canada in Philip Roth's The Plot against America

Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America recapitulates the history of mid-twentieth-century American race relations, and the novel’s repudiation of these assimilationist events makes it the most multicultural of his novels. But in raising the specter of one model of Jewish difference (racial) only to replace it with another (cultural), Roth is blind to the animating model (religious) of the contemporary period’s conservative Christian resurgence. Widely read as being a critical response to that resurgence, the novel’s evacuation of religious meaning suggests how poorly prepared Roth was to tackle the religious energy that overtook the nation during his long career.

Christopher Douglas

Papers

"Something That Has Already Happened": Recapitulation and Religious Indifference in The Plot Against America