| dc.description.abstract | I will explore the correspondences between the ways in which the narrator and protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, composes the story she tells us, and the ways in which she is forced to compose herself in response to the demands of the society of Gilead in which she has been compelled to live. I will compare and contrast them with the ways in which her story is composed and she herself is shown to struggle to compose herself through the language of film in the first season of the television adaptation.The novel presents the story in a verbal language and is written as a first-person narrative; whereas the television series relies on both verbal, through dialog and voice-over, and visual language, and the camera is functioning as the narrator. | en_US |
