The Handmaid’s Tale
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THE WOMEN'S SUFFERING IN THE NOVEL THE HANDMAID'S TALE BY MARGARET ATWOOD
The research discusses social problems experienced by women in a literary work entitled The Handmaid's by Magaret Atwood Magaret. The social problems in question are discussed the social problem of women that happened in the novel The Handmaid's Tale and described the impact of social problem on women characters in the novel. The suffering that befell women handmaids such as Offred, Ofglen, Janine, and others occurs in a country called the Republic of Gilead. The research uses the Structuralism Approach, a literary research method that emphasizes structural aspects in the form of character, plot, setting, theme, and others. Gender study in literature becomes the perspective of this research which highlights social injustice towards female characters in the fictional story. The research data are then analyzed by using qualitative research methods and explained descriptively. The results of this study indicate that during the reign of the Gilead Republic, women experienced various social problems in the form of separation from family, not getting proper education, restrictions on freedom, forced childbirth for elite families, and the obligation to perform certain rituals. The social problems experienced by these women resulted in severe depression that almost claimed their lives.
Abbas Abbas
212879448
'The truth is we're watching each other' Voiceover narration as 'split self' presentation in The Handmaid's Tale TV series
Cognitive stylistics offers a renewed focus on readerly or audience interpretation, but while cognitive stylistic tools have been applied in the investigation of literary texts, their application to TV, film and screen has been more limited. This article examines the cognitive stylistic features of the voiceover narration in the first TV series adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale to explore the representation of June/Offred's 'split selves' and how these are mediated through a prominent 'filmic composition device' Through analysis of voiceovers and corresponding production choices in series 1, this study explores, first, how the different modes of communication both choices of visual production (such as shallow focus shots) and linguistic features (such as 'you' address and container metaphors) combine to show Offred's split perspective; and second, how these stylistic elements work to foreground the key themes of the series, such as imprisonment, objectification and surveillance.
Chloe Harrison
222221091
Women of Gilead as colonized subjects in Margaret Atwood's novel: A study of postcolonial and feminist aspects of The Handmaid's Tale
Abstract Postcolonialism and feminism are two critical discourses that have some common features as both bodies of thought concern the issues of oppression, inequality, binary oppositions, political/social fundamentalism and explain the possible resistance to the cultural legacy of imperialism and colonialism. In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, women, especially handmaids, suffer from the oppression imposed upon them not only by the imperial power but also by the indigenous patriarchal ideology which is similar to the situation of colonized subjects, particularly women, in previously or currently colonized countries. In this respect, Gilead, a place in which this novel took place, is considered as a colonized country in which we will see that although the setting is America, the female characters, who are subjected to both the totalitarian government of Gilead and the patriarchal society, are treated similar to those colonized subjects. Considering Gilead as microcosm of the postcolonial society, this paper explains how the handmaids are treated and forced to experience a life of passivity and submissiveness.
Zahra Sadeghi Narges Mirzapour
150371911
Spatial and Psychophysical Domination of Women in Dystopia: Swastika Night, Woman on the Edge of Time and The Handmaid's Tale
Analyzing Burdekin's Swastika Night Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale the article aims to examine the relations between space, gender based violence, and patriarchy in women's writing. Hitlerdom in Swastika Night, the mental hospital and the future dystopian New York in Woman on the Edge of Time, and Gilead in The Handmaid's Tale are spatial and social nightmares. The authorities that rule these dystopias imprison women in restricted spaces first, limit their vocabulary and daily actions, deprive them of their beauty, freedom and consciousness, and impose maternity or sexuality upon them. My analysis will connect the limitation of space with the psychophysical domination the objectification and the disempowerment of the female gender. Hoping also to shed light on the dynamics and the reasons for contemporary real gender based violence and depreciation, the study will be focused on: 1. the ways space contributes to the creation, the stability and the dominion of dystopian powers; 2. the representation and the construction of female figures, roles and identities; 3. the techniques of control, manipulation and oppression used by patriarchal powers against women; 4. the impact of sex, sexuality and motherhood on women's bodies; and 5. the possible feminist alternatives or solutions proposed by the novels.
Humanities
Elisabetta di Minico
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Breaking silence, bearing witness, and voicing defiance: the resistant female voice in the transmedia storyworld of The Handmaid's Tale
ABSTRACT With the recent success of HULU's video on demand adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale and widespread use of its imagery by political action groups like the Handmaid Coalition, The Handmaid's Tale has become a transmedia property whose dystopian storyworld extends beyond the bounds of any single text. Spanning old and new media, the fictional and real, its storyworld, the Gileadverse, is comprised of authorized entertainment products, as well as fan produced texts and activist performances. Considering the 1985 novel, 1990 film, HULU's 2017 18 adaptation, as well as fan productions and activism, this paper surveys the transmedia shape of the Gileadverse, focusing on how this storyworld is unified by a thematic concern with the resistant female voice.
Amanda Howell
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Book Review: The Handmaid's Tale
Alicia M Walker
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The Handmaid's Tale (2017) or Hulu's Major Investment in Great Storytelling
Hulu knew what they were doing when they bet on the underlying story of The Handmaid's Tale (2017 which manifests the importance of storytelling in the creation of modern myths. The series directly appeals to the human need for identity, belonging, and redemption. Based on Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, The Handmaid's Tale is a depiction of a dystopian society, characterised by an absence of rights and freedoms. It has become a chilling political commentary focusing attention on the control of women's fertility, the objectification of women, religious fanaticism, women's roles in the persecution of other women in a patriarchal system, the persecution of homosexuality, and hyper vigilance.
Angeles Martinez-Garcia
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The nuanced psychology of The Handmaid's Tale: Commentary on power, feminism, and the patriarchy from four feminist evolutionary psychologists.
Jessica L Calvi Ashley M Rankin Nikki Clauss Jennifer Byrd-Craven
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Postmodernism Aspects in Lens of Baudrillard Theory in the novels DeLillo's white noise and Atwood `s Handmaid's tale
DOI: https:/doi.org/10.33258/biolae.v2i3.326 Abstract: This paper focuses on Postmodernism Aspects in Lens of Baudrillard Theory in the novels DeLillo's white noise and Atwood `s Handmaid's tale. To consider the United States as our case study, we know that the affluence and waste are quite related to each other. In a way that we might count it as a throwaway society or garbage can sociology like how Baudrillard has put in words. We are cognizant of the fact that all moralists have criticized the lavishing of wealth. An individual who does not comply with the moral law regarding the internal use value of commodities. The mystification of the commonplace in White Noise can be interpreted as a revolt towards Modernism, which equated rationalization with an increased and general knowledge of the condition under which one lives, i.e. the belief that there are no mysterious incalculable forces that come into play. Modernism located the romantic idea of mystery, of the unknown, geographically, in faraway places like Africa or America. The Handmaid's Tale suggests a particularly postmodern feminist space for resistance a space located within the discourses of the symbolic order including technologically produced and disseminated discourses) rather than in opposition to them.
Fatemeh Sadat Basirizadeh Narges Raoufzadeh Shahrzad Mohammadhossein Muhammad Natsir Fauziah Khairani Lubis
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New Norms of Gender and Emergence of Identity Crisis in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Using Butler's theory of gender performativity and her analysis of the psychic form of power, this paper attempts to show how the modification of gender by power in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has resulted in an identity crisis in the female protagonist, Offred. One significant aspect of the totalitarian regime of Gilead is its gender hierarchy that is further consolidated through sex discourse. Sex in Gilead turns into a privilege granted only to men of high social status. Men are presented as normal sexual beings, whereas women are entirely excluded from this discourse. Femininity in Gilead translates into invisibility, modesty and silence. Women are regarded as being sexually neutral and are reduced to means of reproduction. Offred, who has lost her voice and agency in this society, attempts to create her own narrative through which she can exercise her resistance. However, the lack of consistency and her inability to adjust herself to the new values and norms result in an identity crisis, which is represented through her sense of melancholia and the obvious inconsistencies in her values. Keywords: Gender Study; Power; Subjection; Performativity; Discourse
Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia Tayyebeh Behvand Yousefi