Summary A-level English Literature - The Handmaid's Tale / F451: Violence
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Comparative and contextual study
Institution
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The theme of violence in both 'The Handmaid's Tale' and 'Fahrenheit 451', with quotes, context, critics, alternative interpretations, and comparisons to other dystopian texts
● "they had electric cattle prods slung on"
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● ''if my right eye offends thee, pluck it out''
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● "I could be shot for a prowler"
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● “Red spreads everywhere at Particutions and Salvagings”
Context:
● Based on Salem Witch Trials, countries like North Korea, Somalia, Iran etc
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● FGM used as punishment in predominantly African and middle eastern
countries, often done by mothers and grandmothers
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● Critic, Linda Wagner-Martin, “It is a brutal, horrifying culture founded on sexual
ignorance”
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● Alternative interpretation, FGM and Janine’s eye is plucked out
F451 Quotes:
● "Jet bombs going over, going...over, going over"
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● ‘four-inch hollow steel needle from which it can inject its victims with an anaesthetic
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● “Children kill each other…Six of my friends have been shot in the last year”
Context:
● World war 2 fighter pilots flying over countries
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● Hound of the Baskerville
● Firemen using dogs to sniff people out
● Drug use in Brave New World
● Alternative interpretation, fingerprints are burned off in 2018 film version
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