Nutildytųjų balsas Margaret Atwood romane „Tarnaitės pasakojimas“

Voice of the Voiceless in Margaret Atwood's “The Handmaid's Tale” Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1987) presents a dystopian vision of a society that is controlled and oppressed not only physically, but psychologically as well. The present BA paper focuses on the analysis of power relations displayed in the novel, different forms of resistance against the regime, and Gilead’s resemblance to a prison system. The aim of the paper is to discuss how men and women of Gilead find their voice, or how do the oppressed become more powerful. The chosen theoretical framework is based on Michel Foucault’s ideas on power mechanisms, disciplinary systems, and sexuality, mostly presented in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) and The History of Sexuality Vol.1 An Introduction (1990). The analysis of the novel is founded on the close reading of the text, maintaining a particular attention to the philosophical ideas evident in it