Language S Influence On Control And Rebellion In Margaret Atwood S The Handmaid S Tale

Author : Ronja Thiede
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 26 pages
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Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668948341

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Language’s influence on control and rebellion in Margaret Atwood’s "The Handmaid’s Tale" by Ronja Thiede Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, language: English, abstract: Overall, Atwood utilized Gilead’s oppressive manipulation of language in "The Handmaid’s Tale" to reveal the hierarchical dynamics of power in the theocratic state. Therefore, it is vital to determine in how far Gilead’s discourse is used to maintain the existing power structures, but also whether, and if so, in how far it is used to offer resistance against the state’s rigid hierarchy. Therefore, it will first be analyzed what Gilead’s social structure looks like, before the highly original thoughts of Pierre Bourdieu on the relations among language, power and politics will be introduced to facilitate a real understanding of the correlation of language and power. After that, a closer look at the concrete content of the novel and particular text passages will give an insight into how the Gileadean power structures are maintained through the use of language. Following this, it will then be analyzed how language also enables Gilead’s opponents, in general, but mainly, the novel’s first-person narrator Offred, in particular, to offer resistance. Therefore, it will first be described how the coexistence of two discourses can be a threat to the system, before it will be dealt with Offred’s main means of resistance: her storytelling.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 370 pages
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Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771008795

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Pdf

An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

Author : Marta Dvorak
Publisher : Rennes [France] : Presses universitaires de Rennes
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028802994

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Lire Margaret Atwood by Marta Dvorak Pdf

Ce recueil bilingue consacré à l'écrivain canadien Margaret Atwood, reconnue comme l'une des figures dominantes de la littérature d'expression anglaise, contient l'intervention qu'elle a prononcée à Rennes en novembre 1998 sur son roman The Handmaid's Tale (La Servante écarlate) et sur le genre auquel il appartient. Le roman, inscrit aux programmes 1999 du CAPES et de l'agrégation d'anglais, a été l'un des plus grands succès littéraires des années 80 aux États-Unis, au Canada et en Grande-Bre.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1432838474

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Pdf

Author : Coral Ann Howells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827317

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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells Pdf

Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media star and public performer, cultural critic, environmentalist and human rights spokeswoman, social and political satirist, and mythmaker. This immensely varied profile is addressed in a series of chapters which cover biographical, textual, and contextual issues. The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, while the essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics represent the wide range of different perspectives in current Atwood scholarship.

Author : Storify Library
Publisher : XinXii
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781312077317

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Summary: The Handmaid's Tale by Storify Library Pdf

SUMMARY: THE HANDMAID'S TALE– BASED ON THE BOOK BY MARGARET ATWOOD Are you ready to boost your knowledge about " THE HANDMAID'S TALE "? Do you want to quickly and concisely learn the key lessons of this book? Are you ready to process the information of an entire book in just one reading of approximately 20 minutes? Would you like to have a deeper understanding of the techniques and exercises in the original book? Then this book is for you! BOOK CONTENT: The World of Gilead Offred's Tale Begins The Red Center: Indoctrination A Society in Decline The Commander's Household The Ceremony: Rituals of Control Forbidden Love: Offred and Nick The Underground Network: Mayday Moira's Escape Serena Joy: The Power Behind the Throne Offred's Dangerous Liaisons Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum The Salvaging: Acts of Brutality The Road to Freedom: Offred's Escape The End of Offred's Tale

Author : Katharina Ochsenfahrt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783640622290

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Motivated Elements of Sexual Inequality in Margaret Atwood’s Novel "The Handmaid’s Tale" by Katharina Ochsenfahrt Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: British Dystopias, language: English, abstract: "...women represent fifty percent of the adult world population, one third of the official labour force, perform nearly two-thirds of all working hours, receive only one-tenth of world income and own less than one percent of world property." This quotation from an United Nations report has been in the manuscript of The Handmaid’s Tale as possible epigraph, before Margaret Atwood decided to discard it. But nevertheless it shows very distincly that sexual unequality is still an important subject for discussion and literary works. In particular Margaret Atwood, who is also active in Amnesty International , paints a horrible, brutal and extremistic world in her dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale. In her essay “Writing Utopia” Margaret Atwood emphasizes that in this novel nothing happens that has not occurred somewhere in the world at some time before or even now. Which elements of sexual unequality in Offred’s life are motivated by real societies? Why did Margaret Atwood pick these for her novel The Handmaid’s Tale? This will be pointed out in the following analysis by comparing the real world with the fictive world of Gilead for similarities of sexual unequality during the rapid reversal of the state and in points of the politics, the ideology, the society, the daily life and the resistance against the state.

Author : David Erik Nelson
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737758009

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Women's Issues in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by David Erik Nelson Pdf

The Handmaid's Tale depicts a dystopian society in which a religious dictatorship assumes control of the United States, turning the country into the Republic of Gilead. In this new society, women are stripped of autonomy and often relegated to roles such as servant or childbearing maid. Since the book's publication in 1985, it has become a popular point of reference to guard against government interference in women's rights and issues. This informative edition takes a critical look at Atwood's life and writings, with a specific focus on key ideas related to The Handmaid's Tale. The book collects a series of essays pertaining to feminism, sexism, and religious fundamentalism, creating points of discussion for readers that are both modern and relevant. The text also discusses contemporary women's issues and presents perspectives on topics such as surrogacy, same-sex marriage, and modesty.

Author : Martina Schönherr
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640420254

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Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' and 'Oryx and Crake' - A Comparison by Martina Schönherr Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Constance (Literaturwissenschaften), course: Margaret Atwood's Later Fiction, language: English, abstract: Margaret Atwood's novels The Handmaid's Tale (T.H.T., 1985) and Oryx and Crake (O. & C., 2003) are works of speculative fiction that are set in the near future. Both of the depicted scenarios take place in the U.S.A. and could be classified as "survivor's stories" as they are told from the perspective of a person that survived the new system or the catastrophe the books deal with. T.H.T. takes the reader into an oppressive system that has become reality in the year 2005. In this system women are divided into different kinds of "functional groups" according to their abilities. The story is told by the handmaid Offred who - as all handmaids - is still believed to be fertile. Thus she is solely good for childbearing and has not got any choice. This system however is confined to the United States so that there is still hope for an escape to a better life for the people living under the system. The scenario in O. & C. on the other hand occurs around the year 2025 and depicts a world wide catastrophe where Snowman - the narrator of the story - is one of the few surviving human beings. This paper will compare the two novels according to some points of analysis. I had to confine myself to a few themes as it is impossible to include all topics that could be of importance. To start with, I will take a look at the social and political background of the time the novels were written in, followed by a generic analysis of the works. Secondly I will answer the question about the inspiration for these novels and I will deal with the epilogues Atwood added to her books. This will be followed by a chapter about the main topics of the novels which are reproduction, religion and sexuality. Last but not least I will compare the main characters an

Author : Katharina Ochsenfahrt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783640622870

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Motivated Elements of Sexual Inequality in Margaret Atwood's Novel the Handmaid's Tale by Katharina Ochsenfahrt Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: British Dystopias, language: English, abstract: "...women represent fifty percent of the adult world population, one third of the official labour force, perform nearly two-thirds of all working hours, receive only one-tenth of world income and own less than one percent of world property." This quotation from an United Nations report has been in the manuscript of The Handmaid's Tale as possible epigraph, before Margaret Atwood decided to discard it. But nevertheless it shows very distincly that sexual unequality is still an important subject for discussion and literary works. In particular Margaret Atwood, who is also active in Amnesty International, paints a horrible, brutal and extremistic world in her dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. In her essay "Writing Utopia" Margaret Atwood emphasizes that in this novel nothing happens that has not occurred somewhere in the world at some time before or even now. Which elements of sexual unequality in Offred's life are motivated by real societies? Why did Margaret Atwood pick these for her novel The Handmaid's Tale? This will be pointed out in the following analysis by comparing the real world with the fictive world of Gilead for similarities of sexual unequality during the rapid reversal of the state and in points of the politics, the ideology, the society, the daily life and the resistance against the state.

Author : Melanie Lemke
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640282692

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Religious Fundamentalism in Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" by Melanie Lemke Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, RWTH Aachen University (Institut f r Anglistik), course: Utopian and Dystopian Novels, SS 2008, 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Margaret Atwood needs no longer an introduction in the common sense, because she is one of the most popular and productive writers in the world. Her works, especially her novels are taught at many universities worldwide. Her books are bestsellers and subjects of critical reviews and academical studies. Margaret Atwood wrote her novel The Handmaid's Tale in a time when religious fundamentalism had already been established in the United States. Through this historical background and her own experience with religious fundamentalism and the rising of feminism, it is not surprising that her novels also deal with such a thematic aspects. Moreover, Atwood copies her own experiences and imaginations of religious fundamentalism into the fictive and futuristic world of Gilead.

Author : Ronja Thiede
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668948679

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Motherhood in Margaret Atwood’s novels by Ronja Thiede Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, language: English, abstract: The aim of this bachelor thesis is to contribute to research on how feminist perspectives on motherhood are portrayed in North American fictional writing. For this purpose, I will use close reading techniques to analyze Margaret Atwood’s novels The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye and Oryx and Crake to show that all three foster a feminist view on motherhood. I will argue that in the novels Atwood recognizes motherhood as both a source of oppression and a source of empowerment. Additionally, I will demonstrate how she dismantles the myth of perfect motherhood by portraying disrupted mother-child relationships, authentic maternal experiences and the subjectivity of mother figures that would traditionally be regarded as “bad” mothers.

Author : Meedy Rock
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783346907172

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Feminism in "Handmaid’s Tale" Novel, by Margaret Atwood by Meedy Rock Pdf

Essay from the year 2023 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, Saarland University, course: Literature, language: English, abstract: The novel by Margret, “The Handmaid Tale," address feminist whose main idea dwells on the male dominating the society and how they have taken control over women, even if it means violence, they must dominate. The book was released to the public in 1985 based on how society positioned women; despite being humans, they were regarded as sub-humans. The women in the society were threatened, and the central conflict of feminism in the novel arises when Offred struggles to maintain her dignity as a human amid the oppressive power of the Gilead Republic. Women in society are viewed as worthless beings; this is expressed when Offred is perceived as a walking uterus by his commander despite seeing herself as human like any other.

Author : Helene Greven,Hélène Greven-Borde
Publisher : Didier-Erudition
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021689240

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Margaret Atwood by Helene Greven,Hélène Greven-Borde Pdf

The Handmaid's Tale (1985), by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, revisits the Anglo-American utopian/dystopian tradition. Appealing to imaginative fiction and the novel of ideas, the construction of perfect - or nightmarish - worlds rouses the reader's socio-political awareness of the present and invites questions on the shape of the near furure. The Handmaid's Tale deconstructs the utopian narrative by breaking the chronological order of the female protagonist's experience into a time-shifting testimony, a quest for meaning and an exploration of self versus the other. The intricate play on word and symbol can be read against the historical background of seventeenth-century New England Puritanism, as well as the twentieth-century New Right and women's rights movements, while inviting reference to the postmodernist outlook. This volume includes a bibliography, a study of the book's context, as well as essays and commentaries ; the approach has been adapted to the needs of Capes and Agregation students.

Author : Malcolm Foster
Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780738672908

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The Handmaid's Tale (MAXNotes Literature Guides) by Malcolm Foster Pdf

REA's MAXnotes for Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.