A critical study of Margret Atwood's style in the Handmaid's Tale

Abstract

Critical analysis of literature issues is one of the fundamental issues because It establishes the authors' in-depth understanding and knowledge of their field subject. It gives the background of the research. Demonstrates how the research fits within a larger field of study. Provides an overview of the sources explored during the research of a particular topic. This study explores Margret Atwood's style in the Handmaid's Tale. This paper investigates to illustrate Margret At Wood’s style in the Handmaid’s as a form of resistance can be regarded as a manifestation of her power over oppressive monologic system of Gilead, but her limitation in performing actual actions in liberating herself makes her a passive character throughout the novel. Of particular interest in Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985)-to date the best English Canadian SF novel-are the series of ritual events, the symbolism of the oval hallway mirror, and its generic status as a particular kind of what is termed a "Contextual Dystopia." This kind is distinguished from the traditional dystopia by virtue of both its consideration of the discontinuous historical circumstances (unanticipated within the dystopian discourse) which succeeded the dystopian regime, and of the judiciously balanced interpretative consequences of that consideration. Mary McCarthy's negative review of "The Handmaid's Tale" is countered partly in terms of her failure to recognize this generic distinction. Thus, this study investigates the role of language in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margret Atwood. It explores how language is used to oppress the female characters and at the same time is used to express the female voice within the novel.