2 résultats pour "handmaid"

• The Handmaid's Tale - Censorship

  STATION 1 GENERAL INFORMATION AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT Watch the video entitled “Censorship in the USA (Censored EP 104)” by Octopie STATION 2 BANNED BOOKS WEEK STATION 3 THE HAYES CODES STATION 4 CHALLENGES TO THE BOOK 1990 In the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School district of California, The Handmaid’s Tale was challenged as a reading assignment by a twelfth-grade English student’s parent for supposedly containing ‘sexually explicit’ passages. The parent underlined the pas...

• Analyse du chapitre 23 de the handmaid's tale

  What is striking is the repeated use of similes. A simile is a figure of speech which consists in comparing two unlikely things using like or as or as if. A metaphor does the same without the words as or like. Studying those similes, we notice that they reveal deep themes and literary motifs that characterise The Handmaid’s Tale. First, “as if” + PRETERIT introduces propositions that are not real. The narrator, Offred compares herself “as if I’m a kitten in a window”. It’s both association...