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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. James Russell Lowell

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'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation. Alexis Bledel

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There are a lot of challenges Ofglen faces as a Handmaid. She has to live her life for the Commander of her home, Glen, and it is really a bleak life. She has no rights, and her main job is to keep him and the rest of the people in his house happy. Alexis Bledel

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting. Conor Oberst

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When I first read the scenes I got to audition, I just could tell there was obviously something there. The writing speaks for itself, but also it's just the fact that 'The Handmaid's Tale' is such an amazing story. I had never read the book before I auditioned. Madeline Brewer

When I told my mom I was auditioning for 'The Handmaid's Tale,' she lost it. She was so excited. Madeline Brewer

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'The Handmaid's Tale' will blow people away. Madeline Brewer

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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. Margaret Atwood

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When I first read Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale,' it was Saudi Arabia as I knew it that came to mind, not a dystopian future United States as in the new television adaptation. Mona Eltahawy

I'd been to an Orthodox Jewish primary school where, every morning, the boys said, 'Thank you God for not making me a woman.' If you put that together with 'The Handmaid's Tale' in your head, something will eventually go fizz! Boom! Naomi Alderman

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What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible. Naomi Alderman

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'The Handmaid's Tale' is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future. Phyllida Lloyd

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'The Handmaid's Tale' is a very special story. Reed Morano

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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death. Samantha Shannon

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