The 'Uncanny' Within The Handmaid's Tale pt. 4
This suggests that the regime set out to construct an ideal, or at least guise itself as an ideal, something akin to what Zipes points out in infantile readers with fairy tales: ‘the reade...
For young people, written by young people
This suggests that the regime set out to construct an ideal, or at least guise itself as an ideal, something akin to what Zipes points out in infantile readers with fairy tales: ‘the reade...
But it is not just the Handmaidens that are identical replicas of each other. Offred finds an affiliation with Serena Joy, the Commander’s wife. Offred states, ‘I see the two of us, ...
This, whilst also being an example of the uncanny through ‘doubling’ due to how they are the ‘recurrence of the same thing’, is perhaps more so due to the blurred boundar...
As the prime voice on notions of the uncanny, Sigmund Freud states that ‘an uncanny effect often arises when the boundary between fantasy and reality is blurred’. Wh...