The Handmaids Tale Part 1: Crash Course Literature, 403

In which John Green teaches you about Margaret Atwood s speculative fiction novel, The Handmaid s Tale. John looks at some of the themes in this classic dystopian novel, many of which are kind of a downer. The world of Gilead that Atwood created looks at a lot of the issues that we deal with today, and the very human impulse to return to an imagined golden era, thereby solving all of our modern world s problems. Yeah, it doesn t work like that. Crash Course is made with Adobe Creative Cloud. Get a free tri