around its content‚ but also its language and construction. This notion articulates profoundly within Margaret Atwood’s novel A Handmaid’s Tale as it is‚ after all‚ the author’s manipulation of the language and construction which enacts as vehicles towards the reader’s understanding of the content. A Handmaid’s Tale is a confrontational post-modern work of feminist dystopian fiction; it depicts a protagonist’s struggle to adapt to a totalitarian and theocratic state where language has become corrupted
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Maria IB English 05/31/12 How do the scenes‚ of both the book and movie‚ of The Handmaid´s Tale made changes for their own benefit? The Handmaid´s Tale book by the Canadian Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel‚ science fiction first published in 1985. It won so many prizes such as the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Nebula Award‚ among others‚ that this novel was adapted to the big screen. The movie adaptation‚ named the same as the book‚ was directed by Volker Schlondorff and made in 1990
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The Handmaid’s Tale is set in the early twentieth century in the futuristic Republic of Gilead‚ formerly the United States of America. The Republic has been founded by a Christian response to declining birthrates. The government rules using biblical teachings that have been distorted to justify the inhumane practices. In Gilead‚ women are categorized by their age‚ marital status and fertility. Men are categorised by their age. Women all have separate roles in society‚ and although these roles are
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Fertile women are the key for a thriving country. In the book‚ Handmaid’s Tale there is a country named Gilead that was born after the destruction of the United States. Within the Gilead‚ there is a strong totalitarian government where the people do not have the freedom to think their own thoughts. Gilead is a biblical term for “hill of testimony”. Religion plays a big part on how Gilead controls their government. The women of Gilead no longer have control over themselves‚ as the government dictates
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The book The Giver is a dystopia. It is a dystopia because you get your bike at 12 years old‚ they kill small children‚ and they can’t leave the community. Children in The Giver receive their bikes when they are twelve. I think that is too old.I think you need to get your bike it eight years old.Because if you get your bike at 8 you can practice. So when you get twelve you will know how to ride your bike to where you need to go. So you need to get your bike taller than twelve. In the b community
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The Commander’s Wife I can almost feel it. Feel my hate‚ disgust‚ yearning. It’s clammy palms are clasped well within my dry‚ aged ones; I was choosing to ignore how the tightness of my grip was spitefully cutting into the youthful flesh. I was choosing to ignore many things. I also wasn’t the only thing cutting into the lament faced mass of bones before me. My eyes reluctantly glanced up to his withered face‚ lines of wisdom and experience coating his physiognomy. A flinch beckoned me to
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George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale are both novels in which the state‚ namely Oceania and Gilead‚ attempts to exert totalitarian control over the lives of its peoples. Through Orwell and Atwood’s subsequent portrayal on the ensuing dystopias we are clearly able to see the respective states desire to control love and emotion‚ which are considered undesirable distractions‚ as a means of achieving the totalitarian control that they so desire. It is thus in
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is shatterproof. There is nothing in the room from which one could hang a rope‚ and the door does not lock or even shut completely. Looking around‚ Offred remembers how Aunt Lydia told her to consider her circumstances a privilege‚ not a prison. Handmaids‚ to which group the narrator belongs‚ dress entirely in red‚ except for the white wings framing their faces. Household servants‚ called “Martha’s‚” wear green uniforms. “Wives” wear blue uniforms. Offred often secretly listens to Rita and Cora‚ the
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vote; if they were to go outside of societal norms they were looked at with disdain. The novel gave a very accurate account of a woman’s role in society and the burdens they faced because of the overwhelming pressure of their peers. In “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood‚ women were the property of society; forced to
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Dystopia Dystopia is often a society set in the future that has degraded into a repressive and controlled state‚ often under the control of some form of government but not always. A dystopian society can also be a planned structured society in which the conditions of life are deliberately made miserable. Some examples of these can be characterized by poverty‚ oppression‚ violence‚ disease‚ scarcity‚ and/or pollution for the benefit of a select minority or some unnatural societal goal. I am going
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