AUTHORITY FIGURES - The Handmaid's Tale and The Kite Runner
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- Created on: 20-12-18 19:57
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- Explore the significance of authority figures
- The Handmaid's Tale
- The Commander
- As a founder of Gilead upholding the regime
- Oppressive role, upholding violence, religious conservativism
- 'Six bodies hanging'
- 'The Eyes move in on him'
- 'Shoving', 'Propelling', 'pushing', 'kicks', 'jabs'
- Reveals the corruption of society
- Jezebel's
- Long build up followed by anticlimactic end reflects the Commander's power and frailty
- 'Feathers, mauve and pink'
- 'Paint your face'
- 'You can't cheat nature'
- Relationship with Offred
- 'My presence here is illegal'
- 'I want you to kiss me'
- 'I wanted what I could get'
- Jezebel's
- Oppressive role, upholding violence, religious conservativism
- As head of the household, controlling the actions of those inside
- Power exerted over women emotionally, physically and spiritually through the Ceremonies
- 'TheCommander is *******'
- 'Withdraws, recedes, rezippers'
- 'Only one is involved'
- 'He looks worried and helpless'
- 'I felt the Commander watching me'
- Power exerted over women emotionally, physically and spiritually through the Ceremonies
- As a founder of Gilead upholding the regime
- Offred's mother
- Imposes ideological authority through her feminist activism
- 'Women burningbooks'
- 'I didn't want to be ... the incarnation of her ideas'
- 'I don't want a man around'
- 'My mother is moving forward... raising their fists'
- Imposes ideological authority through her feminist activism
- Aunts and Guardians
- Implement institutional authority and control individual behaviour
- 'You will wait until I blow the whistle'
- 'Electric cattle prods'
- 'Patrolled'
- 'Steel cables, frayed at the ends'
- Punish, control and repress identities
- 'You are an example'
- 'We are containers'
- 'Teach her a lesson'
- Implement institutional authority and control individual behaviour
- The Commander
- The Kite Runner
- Assef
- Abuse of Sohrab
- Shown to be controlling, manipulative and immoral
- 'Up and down, slowly, gently'
- 'Hands slid down the child' back'
- 'My boy'
- 'Put it, lovingly, in Sohrab's mouth'
- Authority figure in the Taliban
- Inflicts violence and terror
- Stoning at the stadium
- 'Buckled', 'Slumped', 'Screamed', 'Kicked'
- 'The cry of a wild animal'
- 'Mangled mess of blood'
- 'Bloodied corpses'
- 'Hurled', 'Tosses'
- Maintaining an oppressive, conservative society
- 'Recited a lengthy prayer'
- 'Whip-toting Talibs'
- 'Wearing long pants'
- 'You won't find kites'
- Hazara massacre
- 'Shoot them right there'
- 'Fire and fire'
- 'Let the bullets fly free'
- 'Shoot them too'
- Abuse of Sohrab
- Baba
- Parental authority over Amir
- 'Don't you challenge me in public, Amir. Ever'
- Authority within the community
- Used for social good (building orphanage)
- 'Baba decided to build an orphanage'
- 'Your father ... truly deserves the label'
- 'The legacy of their fathers'
- Used for social good (building orphanage)
- Parental authority over Amir
- General Taheri
- Patriarch who imposes parental and marital authority
- ALT - his authority fails at the end of the novel
- Amir undercuts his dialogue when he labels Sohrab
- 'A Hazara boy'
- 'He has a name'
- Amir undercuts his dialogue when he labels Sohrab
- 'Padar ... made me come home'
- 'Padar moved us to California
- 'Silence the song in her'
- ALT - his authority fails at the end of the novel
- Patriarch who imposes parental and marital authority
- Amir
- Intellectual authority over Hassan
- Uses his authority to manipulate and uphold the inequality between them
- 'What did he know?'
- 'Just a Hazara'
- 'Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys'
- 'What use did a servant have for the written word?'
- 'Expose his ignorance'
- Uses his authority to manipulate and uphold the inequality between them
- Intellectual authority over Hassan
- Assef
- The Handmaid's Tale
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