Post modern Satire Feminist literature Meta-fiction Dystopian Speculative
- Temporal - Epigraph from - Highlights - Alludes to the - Society is an - High detail of
distortion/fragm Johnathon Swift contrats of work as a illusion of a real world
entation (satirist) gender roles construction utopia - Events derived
(Luke = - Mocks society and the - Self-reflexive - Offred is an from past and
anachronistic) for a moral negative wider - Historical notes atypical present of our
- HM = atypical purpose: draw impact (pm device) dystopian reality
as influenced by attention to - Sexual violence - ‘This is a protagonist as - Role in gilead is
real world flaws = major issue construction’ little efforts to predetermined
events more for patriarchal - ‘It didn’t happen resist, and by individual’s
directly societies and like that’ female life in the ‘time
- Misdirection often - Luke/Moira are - Moira is the before’
and ambiguity: foreground of only perceived typical - Memories to
no certain feminist through dystopian survive (Offred
ending conversations memory protagonist and 1984’s
- No truth of - Unreliable - Constant states Winston)
regime, only narrator of surveillance - Good (Offred)
what Offred - Dehumanised Vs Evil
assumes and citizens (Gileadean
this leaves - Restriction of regime)
everything to thought and - Perceived as
interpretation freedom alternate
- Multiple - Loss of identity universe
versions of - Citizens
same events conform to
(Luke and Nick) uniform
- Self-reflexivity: - No honest
paradoxical identity (e.g
combination of Offred, the
self-consciousn Commander,
ess and the Eyes)
historical
grounding
- Challenges
boundaries of
genres.
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