Biblical legalization in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: A Žižekian Approach to the Theory of Ideology
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Writing poetry, fiction, and criticism for almost fifty years, Margaret Atwood has immensely influenced Canadian literature. Her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, comments upon the deeply flawed ideology of the Republic of Gilead. In her challenge to portray the mechanisms of oppression as credible enough, as sufficiently powerful and seductive, to represent a believable evil, not an irrelevant or farfetched one, Atwood creates the theocratic regime of Gilead and displays how the governors appropriate the text of the Bible merely to fit their political, social, and sexual goals. One of the most recent activities on the notion of ideology is the works of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. This article examines the notions of ideology in The Handmaid’s Tale from Žižek’s perspective. It concentrates on images, symbols, and propsitions that the Handmaids encounter in their daily activities. The main significance of this study lies in the fact that none of the existing studies on the notion of ideology has explored the cooperation of political terms with psychoanalytic key words.
Authors and Affiliations
Yaser Jafari *| M.A. Student, English Language and Literature Post-graduate Department, Boroujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd, Iran. email: Yaserjafari1365@yahoo.com, Shahram Afrougheh| Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature Post-graduate Department, Boroujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd, Iran.
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