Margaret Atwood on "The Testaments"
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Canadian author Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel, "The Handmaid's Tale," about a United States taken over by Christian zealots who force women to serve as sex slaves and child bearers for a powerful elite, became a bestseller and an Emmy-winning TV series. It has also introduced the iconography of Gilead into today's political discussions. Now, Atwood has penned a sequel, "The Testaments," which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She tells correspondent Martha Teichner that while she wrote the books as a warning, she does not see herself as a prophet.
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"I am Canadian Martha, we don't do proud of." Laughed out loud.
It's so true though!
VP Walter Mondale is from that same don't promote your self stance. No me, myself, and I. Mondale said that his father would use corporal punishment on him in the woodshed for being id, ego driven. Mondale was not raised to be an Ali, "I'm the Greatest!" Nor the Titanic director James Cameron, "I'm king of the world", in whatever sense he said that at the Oscars.
7:05 timestamp
"I'm Canadian, Martha. We don't do 'proud of'!"
I wonder if she had any idea how eerily accurate her work would be when she first published it in the 80s?
All she had to do was look at chattel slavery
Ryan Scarola Way more in Muslim countries than in the US. It won’t be the Christians taking over.
@@teambrad3777 Look at photos of Tehran in the 70s vs. today. Don't ever say it can't happen here.
It's accurate because the book was based on real life situations she said. And the more things change, the more they stay the same. Until a giant meteor or mass plague wipes out most of the population, human atrocities perpetrated by other humans will continue, ad infinitum.
For sure, she made it
There are very few authors who can slap their character in the face, and literally.
"I'm Canadian, Martha. We don't do proud of."
Aye, she is definitely a treasure.
Margaret Atwood deserves better than this brainless interview , those women have no clue, and the uncomfortable silences were very loud.
Yeah. And as far as I have read in The Testaments so far, the parallels with Iran are even more obvious.
"Less embarrassed by." I love it!
What does she mean by that? Canadians are modest or something +
As Sam Bee tried to explain to Pence and others before he was chosen to be VP, "it's not a how-to manual."
looked up Margaret Atwood on wikipedia and found out 2 things: 1 - Margaret Atwood is still alive. 2 - Margaret Atwood is
CANADIAN. OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. i get it now......
Christian sharia law
Christian Evangelical Law specifically
lorraine green nope- not even close. Gilead is the epitome of Islam sharia law in frightening ways. And they want the whole world to live under it, even if it means beheading and enslaving us. Just change the color of the Handmaid dresses to black- there you go.
Please tell me the last time you saw a Christian stoning a gay man to death? Or the last time you saw a Christian woman killed for divorcing her husband?
When is the last time you saw a Christian father sell his 9 year old into a forced arranged marriage, knowing she would be raped repeatedly?
Gilead is NOT Christianity. It is Sharia law in America. And it IS coming. The Quran demands it.
@@teambrad3777 So which god do they get this doctrine from? Hmm mm let me see. Surely it couldn't be the mighy Jehovah, you know the one who made these exact same laws and has a penchant for blood sacrifice? 🤔 Wasn't Jesus against hypocrisy in all its forms? Oh I'm sorry, you're not allowed to deviate from the script are you, wouldn't that violate some kind of religious law? Didn't Jesus's come to fullfill those laws that were from the father of the pharisees, Satan? You my dear are a Nimby of the highest order, and Jesus would not approve. Unless you are calling him a hypocrite too?
lorraine green
Answering my questions with questions that deviate from the topic, while insulting me, only shows that you are either having a bad day, adhd, or you know that answering my questions directly will prove my point.
I’ll be glad to answer your (off topic) questions after you’ve answered mine.
@@teambrad3777 I won't be wasting my time as you can't handle the truth, that much is apparent. Your attempt at minimising is also symptomatic of an underlying insecurity that belighs a weakness of faith. Hence your immediate attack on another faith, projecting your guilt externally then washing your hands of any responsibility just as pontius pilate did. Time to examine your own blind spots before pointing out splinters in others.
Something about her eyes
Sadness and like she’s seen things
Love the book and movie. So very eerily close to some US States now, and Pence’s evangelicals eliminating women’s rights.
>So very eerily close to some US States now,
America is so terrible for women that they're the majority of college grads and men are the majority of suicides and pay most of the taxes while getting less welfare and tax benefits.
@@cerebralcaustic men are only the higher number because they succeed more frequently. Women make more attempts.
Go away. Murdering the unborn is NOT a right.
I really want to see the ballet. Do they use pointe shoes? How can you dance in that blinding bonnets?
I loved The Handmaids Tale and The Testaments
You need to read better books.
The series was so raw , so brutal. As a woman feminist you are forced to immediately see the multilevel facets of oppression targeted on women. And you also recognize how women (Aunt Lydia) become the very enforcer, champion and mouth piece of the oppressor.
While this is fiction, the reality is that one way or the other women across the world have experienced such levels of brutality.
Love her books!!!
She's amazing, I love her.. and she is right, it could happen, it is happening, people, women have to wake up before it is too late!
And ps.... Hulu why aren’t you picking up oryx and crake??? I heard hbo was going to develop it but didn’t.
Lol i recognise the blonde actress from the invisible man
Her name is Elizabeth Moss
I wonder how she really felt about them bastardizing her creation.
Give a brief summary of testaments by Atwood and the revolution that was done
As of my last update in September 2021, there is no literary work titled "Testaments" by Margaret Atwood. However, there is a well-known novel by Margaret Atwood titled "The Testaments," which is a sequel to her famous dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale."
"The Testaments" picks up fifteen years after the events of "The Handmaid's Tale" and is narrated by three different female characters. It delves deeper into the oppressive regime of Gilead, a theocratic and authoritarian society that has subjugated women and stripped them of their rights and freedoms.
The revolution you mentioned might refer to the resistance movement against the oppressive Gilead regime. Throughout "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Testaments," there are hints of resistance and underground movements working to dismantle the regime and bring about change. In "The Testaments," these movements gain strength, and secrets from within Gilead come to light, leading to a significant revolution against the oppressive rulers.
Please note that my information is accurate up to September 2021, and there may have been updates or new releases beyond that date. If "Testaments" is indeed a different work by Margaret Atwood or there have been developments related to these books after September 2021, I wouldn't have information about them.
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She should win a Nobel prize in literature soon.
The Handmaid's live at the Sclafly Center when not assigned to a Commander. I wonder how her estate felt about that reference.
There was NO law in Romania stating that women in Romania "had to have four babies". The Decree 770 made abortion and contraceptives illegal and gave some incentives to women who had more babies.
And your clarification makes a horrendous piece of legislation better how?
Linen Gray your reasoning is uncorrect. One: he does nowhere mention the law that was in used was good and two: he is very kind to clarify this issue and correct our assumptions about this historical fact.
Correction though, ‘some incentives’ also makes things a bit too positive. Im reading this quote at the moment: ‘In the first year of his rule, his government issued Decree 770, which outlawed abortion for women under 40 with fewer than four children. “The foetus is the property of the entire society,” Ceaușescu announced. “Anyone who avoids having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.”
Ceaucescu's children - an article in the Guardian says otherwise. The state was checking for the continuation of any pregnancy that occured. Why do you think the orphanages were full of children?
So you are really going to sugarcoat decree 770? Wow. Ok
The gave her the prize for the book immediately when she declared her intention to write the book.
Now, after the plane was shot down in Iran; rather than expressing any kind of sympathy to the Canadians that lost family, all the Dufus says is " Well, they WERE flying in some pretty rough territory. " I hang my head in shame and express my Deepest Sympathy to Everyone , Canadian, Iranian or otherwise that lost people because of our Chief Twit...er'er. Unlike Ms. Atwood and her fellow Canadians who do " Less embarrassed about" We, Alas, have Heaps to be embarrassed about .
Atwood was a bit irritable towards the interviewer, she’s only asking questions
Writers tend to be very quiet, shy, private people. They're a little socially clumsy, & they don't understand why people make a big fuss over them - they're not very self-confident. They often think the questions people ask are very strange, or everyone asks that question, or there's no real way to answer a question. These are really broad generalizations, but there's some truth there. I've been a writer since I was 6 (I wrote a "chapter book" about a family of horses; each chapter was only about 5-10 sentences but I'm still "less embarrassed" by it 😁).
@@greenbird777 maybe you’re right about her personality type. I’ll have to watch this interview again with a new perspective. Ha, I’d like to read your chapter book on the family of horses :)
She has a unique way of speaking...kind of deadpan but very observant. She’s likely answered the same question 5,000 times, but she is trying to drive the point home each time.
I’ve met her in real life and she is quite lovely. I think you’re taking her sarcastic nature the wrong way :) she wasn’t being rude, she was joking
Isn’t this all an implicit criticism of Islam as well?? Loads of Muslim women dress all in black covering they’re hair and sometimes faces. Pretty close to the handmaids costume. Not to mention massive Islamic repression of gays and women in their countries
It's not about Islam, it's about any extreme oppression of women. It happened in dictatorships, it happens in many extreme religions; extreme christianity, extreme judaism, extreme islam. You could apply it to the amish on the basis of dress if you were going to apply it to islam. It's about an extreme interpretation of law/religion in oppressing women.
Every religion has aspects of this. They're all cancer
Yes it's all about nonsensical Islam.
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What is amazing is that religions use corrupt tactics and even the brightest are totally blind
to their tactics!
In Corrupt countries the best resume does not get you the
job, the best product does not get you the contract - wait buddy, you have to
go thru us - either you pay or must have the right connections to get what you
want
Religions say the EXACT same thing - you could be the greatest person in
the world - a Gandhiji, a Buddha but wait buddy, you have to go thru us - only
our God can get you Heaven, so first you must convert Works do not matter - all
you have done in your life does not matter The only thing that matters is
religion
Just like the Corrupt people rig the system, religions also use the lure of Heaven to push conversions
Corrupt religions dominate the world! They dominate because the moral, ethical, educated seem totally
brainwashed by religion
Your post has not received enough thumbs up as far as I'm concerned. It's the most accurate post I've read in a really long time.
@@nunyazero Thank you - yes sometimes I wonder why is this so difficult? In the 21st century with all our education, talk of morals and values - these Corrupt ideas dominate?
How is this possible?
I live in the US and the top media refuse to publish my views
Let me know of any publications that you know might welcome such ideas
Makes me sick
Especially of people who teach and study morals and ethics
They should be the ones pointing out how immoral such ideas are & yet amazingly even the best of minds, most moral of minds seem to be totally brainwashed by these religions
But I will keep trying
@@nunyazero WRONG
Trump and Pence's dream society
Islams dream society
She said in her mind this isn’t Trump but it is others in power. I would love to know her answer !
No, it's actually the mooooooooooooooooooooooooooolems' dream society.
It seems to me that if someone had no religious background or knowledge of true basic Christians beliefs based on chastity, love, and caring they could easily be mislead. Sad. Doesn't religion get a bad rap the way it is and not with all the hate crimes happening in them around the world......
Religion gets a bad rap because of the inherent hypocrisies within its moralistic laws. Religion is worldly and therefore subject to corruption as all patriarchal constructs are. Personal spirituality is not subject to this as there is no hierarchy of control to wield power over anyone. Until everyone's sovereignty is recognised and upheld, religion will be subjected to manipulation and divide and destroy tactics to subvert Jesus's pure message of personal responsibility and the primacy of love.
Its been given a bad rap not falsely.
@@crystaltheo8494 We live in a fallen world. Jesus knew that.
@@1dayfree Personal spirituality is subjective and flexible and prone to corruption and moral degradation/evil more than anything. Personal spirituality is the worldly religion, it is all saying look within look to self. While Christianity is death to self, look to Jesus including for a fixed moral framework.
Yeah that’s the one problem I see here too. While they of course mention christian zealots and not just christians, there is also nowhere mentioned that of course christians often don’t have these extreme opinions at all and often do charity and the like. Actually, this is the reason I decided not to watch the series since it is difficult for me to keep my non-prejudiced opinion about christians.
I don't feel like "sex slaves" is the correct term here
Seriously Sunday Morning? You only gave this brilliant lady a seven minute segment.
Rebecca Phillips Margaret Atwood is not a woman, she is transgendered and is a man!!
7:05 I'm Canadian Martha, we don't do proud of.
wait...
Martha Teichner --> oh ok
least embarrased by, thats a life .
Is the story about Christians or Jews?
Mooooslems
@@theunknowncommenter725 Cows?
No offence but how on earth is raping women, Christian- like. Like it violates the 10 commandments.
Who?
Take it to the streets
"I am a victim, hear me roar" of today...is a loooong way from the great Helen Reddy song and message "I am Woman"
...ah, the full name of Atwood's next project:
"I Am an Oppressed Victim, Hear Me Roar. Victims Are Morally Superior, and Have More Virtue Too. Get A Masters in Grievance Studies, Acquire $200,000 In Debt For a Worthless Degree Not Needed Or Wanted In the Real World, Then Blame the Patriarchy"
Ah...you refer to the Virtue Victim Pyramid....thankfully, being dismantled bit by bit.
Marc Pagan Spoken by a man. Yawn...
@@margo3367
Margo appears to be another member of the victim virtue pyramid
....or one who co-opts the real, manufactured, or self-inflected pain of others, for social validation.
Yawn....pathetic, tiresome, and obvious.
If you have not read the book please go back read it first then comment. It is about *complete* societal oppression by religious zealots the Handmaid's are just the focus of the story.
@Kate
Equal standards is not hate.
You've been watching too much CNN.
More Christian mockery.
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