Enforcing Patriarchal Values : A socialist feminist analysis of the characters of Offred and Serena Joy in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale
This essay shows how Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) functions as a critique of patriarchal society as it depicts a dystopic, dismantled society where women are divided into societal groups on biological grounds. Based on socialist feminist literary theory, an analysis is carried...
Main Author: | Jonsson, Andrea |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)
2018
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66776 |
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