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Links between Frankenstein and the Handmaids Tale (Women (FSTEIN…
Links between Frankenstein and the Handmaids Tale
Science
Women
FSTEIN
Women's roles defined for them by a male narrator
Nearly always victims e.g. murdered, sick, injustice
Angels/caring e.g. mother
Dying as their social responsiblities dictate
Mary Woolstonecraft AO3
Women possessions- Elizabeth a gift
Exist to look after others/to be objects of revenge
Written by a women with a male narrator?
Gothic literature is typically female and normally involves violence towards the female
Nature as a feminine principle that is penetrated by the male yet has the power to punish the transgressive penetrator
Workshop may stand for the female womb
Frankenstein says he has 'usurped' a woman's role
AO3 Shelley basically continually pregnant from 16-21
HMAID
Everything thorugh a woman's perpestive
Women second class and dependent on men
'Of___' = posessions of men
Posessions/commodities also in Jezebels
Either domesticated, wives or sex objects
Women are literally branded
Their entire lives dictated by fertility
Offred gains her identity through men- Luke, Commander, Nick
Offred unhappy without a man?
Religion
HMAID
FSTEIN
Quote from paradise lost at the start
Monster is compared to adam
Monster is compared to the devil
Politics
Mass identity
Nurture
Society/class
Otherness
Human nature
Mirrors/reflection/dopplegangers
Men
FSTEIN
Identity bound up in hubris, revenge, violence and ambition
In creation (adam) and prometheus man is seen as tyring to be like god/over-reaching
Walton willing to do anything for glory
Creature even knows that women are posessions
Shelley commenting on male pride?
All men think it's their destiny to be powerful
HMAID
Often seen in terms of power/sexuality
Commander's black shoes/car indicates a slick political fascism
Leather seats/book etc indicates Commander is above them
Signs of weakness e.g. 'slug'/'shrunk' in ceremony - weakness and inability to fight the system
Doctors abuse power
Many men hung/in salvaging questions if it's a patriarchy as everyone oppressed
Warnings
FSTEIN
Fighting your creator
Betrayal
Society's judgement of the exterior
Playing god
Interpretations of the Bible
The impact of negelct
HMAID
Underpopulation
Nuclear warfare
Complicity in the face of a government overhaul
Naivety/docility