Introduction The dystopian novels and movies have been rendered to more researches and analysis from the different angles by readers and spectators from its genesis. George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New world had enlightened the debates in all parts of the world. In the year 1984, many dystopian fictions, to be precise, novels have been written by different writers evaluating the current status of the democracy in the world politics and the depth of totalitarianism that shrouded
Introduction Canadian author Margaret Atwood describes in her futuristic speculative novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), a story about a handmaid, with a patronymic name Offred, who witnesses, experiences and recounts a transformation of her country. The country has turned from the land of freedom to the totalitarian theocracy, where tyrannical dictatorship, oppression, Christianity and Biblical speeches held sway over people, in particular, over women. Aiming to return things to “Nature’s norm” (THT
The handmaid 's tale is a dystopian fiction novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1984. It is a bestselling book and was an instant classic. The plot behind the book is a terrifying one, women no longer have rights and are forced by the controlling government to become essentially baby makers and nothing else. Margaret Atwood borrows heavily from biblical texts to demonstrate societies and people being controlled by religion. Margaret Atwood has scattered so many biblical references throughout her
In Margaret Atwood’s novel, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, Moira is depicted as the symbol for resistance to authority and represents hope to the Handmaids. Atwood presents her as a polar opposite to Offred. She is independent, strong-willed, and outspoken. Conversely, the pair can be argued to be doubles in the fact that they both ‘resist’ to the oppressive Republic in Gilead. Throughout the novel, Moira’s use of informal language and slang is apparent. This is significant because Moira’s crude vocabulary
The story takes place in the Republic of Gilead in 1900s, it was said to have replaced the United States of America. The narrator was said to be in a high school gymnasium which was later identified to be the Women’s Center, a training ground for the handmaids. The handmaids are women who are bound by the government to conceive a child for the elite couples who are having trouble in acquiring their child. Women of Gilead turned to be infertile because of radiation and pollution which was perceived
this regime, and anything deemed unholy by the government, are a thing of the past. This situation is the one represent in the Republic of Gilead, where the rules of society and its traditions are not taken lightly if broken. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood shows that an oppressive government leads to the inevitable neglect and remiss of the rules through Offred’s characterization, irony, and flashbacks. Offred 's character development can show that her actions change . Over the
The Handmaid’s Tale is a story set in the Republic of Gilead, a dystopian imagining of the future of the U.S.. The country that the author creates is one in which no form of total freedom exists and people are punished for what had been normal in the past. But worst of all, in that world, women are merely tools and their only purposes are a. to govern over other women, b. to cook and do housework, and c. to procreate. The story is told from the perspective of Offred, who is a Handmaid, given the
Margaret Atwood has seamlessly woven a tapestry of feminist elements - mainly regarding gender oppression - within her works. With that, using two of Atwood’s texts, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Year of The Flood, as the foundation for our literary research, we will be focusing on the commodification of the female flesh in both similar dystopian contexts. Commodification refers to the action or process of treating an object, or a person, as a raw material or product that can be bought and sold, or
Whether one era or society allows to think about themselves and individual is always obligated to make there action for there happiness and for themselves .In the novel The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Offred’s acceptance towards complacency helps her survive in a misogynistic society but internally she is refusing to comply to sustain her identity. As much as Offred disagrees with the value and beliefs in the society she has to comply in order to endure. The commander throughout the
The conflict in the dystopian novel arises from the central idea of the novel, an idea that becomes a commanding passion and moves the plot ahead. Margaret Atwood 's The Handmaid 's Tale revolves around the revival of religious fanaticism and how this conservative totalitarian theocracy has made its citizens more or less captives. Thus the novel becomes the study of survival. Similarly Huxley builds the plot of Brave New World on the