REBELLION - The Handmaids Tale and The Kite Runner
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- Created on: 20-12-18 16:46
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- 'Political and social protest writing often focuses on rebellion against those in power.'
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Moira's Rebellion
- Characterised as bold, confident, outspoken
- 'Like an elevator with open sides'
- 'Daring and spectacular'
- 'Moira was always more logical'
- ALT - punished and subdued by her rebellion
- Beating by the Aunts at the Red Centre
- 'A lack of volition'
- Confined at Jezebel's
- 'I don't know how she ended'
- 'She's dressed absurdly'
- 'Government issue'
- Beating by the Aunts at the Red Centre
- Characterised as bold, confident, outspoken
- Ofglen's Rebellion
- Organised resistance, community-minded
- 'I thought you were a true believer'
- ALT - punished for her rebellion
- Suicide suggests the hopelessness of rebellion
- 'Ofglen, wherever she is, is no longer Ofglen'
- 'She saw the van coming for her'
- 'She hanged herself'
- 'She has died that I may live'
- Suicide suggests the hopelessness of rebellion
- Organised resistance, community-minded
- Offred's Rebellion
- Relationship with Nick
- 'He's not servile enough'
- 'All I've got left'
- Role in the resistance
- 'Nolite te bastardes Carborandorum'
- Relationship with the Commander
- 'A small defiance'
- 'I wanted what I could get'
- Relationship with Nick
- The Commander's Rebellion
- Rebels because of his desire for a deeper emotional connection - hypocrisy
- Highlights the unsteadiness of the foundations of Gilead
- Relationship with Offred (scrabble, Jezebel's, hand cream)
- 'Get a kick out of it'
- 'It's like screwing on the altar or something'
- 'Now it's forbidden. `now it's dangerous. Now it's indecent'
- 'He won't come down this late. He never does'
- Rebels because of his desire for a deeper emotional connection - hypocrisy
- Serena Joy's Rebellion
- Sets up Offred's relationship with Nick
- Highlights the unsteadiness of the foundations of Gilead
- ALT - Committed in order to fulfil the goal of the regime, so not fully rebellious
- 'She wants it alright, that baby'
- 'Women do it frequently. All the time'
- 'Serena Joy has arranged it'
- 'She'll wait for me'
- Has cigarrettes
- 'Little black market errands'
- 'I could get something for you'
- Sets up Offred's relationship with Nick
- As a dystopian, the rebellion operates on a general level of society
- Moira's Rebellion
- The Kite Runner
- Friendship between Amir and Hassan rebels against ingrained prejudice
- 'Giggling, laughing'
- 'You're a prince and I love you'
- ALT - Amir and Hassan do not view each other as friends, they are aware of the ethnic divide
- 'Made my bed, polished my shoes'
- 'I held all the keys'
- 'What use did a servant have for the written word?'
- 'What did he know?'
- 'Ingrained sense of one's place'
- 'Hassan never denied me anything'
- 'We won! We won!'
- 'I loved him in that moment'
- Rebellion against political regimes
- Baba's rebellion against the Soviet oppressors
- 'Pointed the barrel to Baba's chest'
- 'Tell him he's wrong'
- 'I'll take a thousand of his bullets'
- Amir's rebellion against the Taliban
- 'Screamed', 'Thrown', 'Hurled', 'Choking', 'Lying', 'Snapping'
- 'Brass knuckles'
- 'Rolled side to side, shrieking'
- Baba's rebellion against the Soviet oppressors
- Rebellion of women
- Sanaubar's rebellion against the patriarchy
- ALT - is physically scarred by her wrongdoings
- 'She just collapsed'
- 'Toothless woman with stringy graying hair and sores on her arms'
- 'Slashes cut this way and that way'
- 'Grotesque'
- 'I knew your mother ... I knew her real good'
- 'Beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous'
- 'Dishonourable reputation'
- 'Sent men to reveries of infidelity'
- 'tempted countless men into sin'
- ALT - is physically scarred by her wrongdoings
- Soraya's rebellion against her father
- ALT - ends with her in the wrong and returning home to live a virtuous life
- 'Dedicated herself to taking care of my father'
- 'White ankle-length summer dress'
- 'A veiled par in white'
- 'She would bear the brunt of that poison'
- 'Rebellious... stupid'
- 'He saved me'
- 'I was hysterical'
- 'Made me come home'
- ALT - ends with her in the wrong and returning home to live a virtuous life
- Sanaubar's rebellion against the patriarchy
- As a bildungsroman, the rebellion operates on an individual and personal level
- Friendship between Amir and Hassan rebels against ingrained prejudice
- The Handmaid's Tale
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