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    Domestic Periphery: Assign An Inferior Rank or Position To)

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    The document summarizes several key concepts and plot points from The Handmaid's Tale: 1) Handmaids are isolated and relegated to the edges of the domestic sphere in Gilead. 2) Micro-stratification creates a hierarchical system that pits women against each other as well as men against women. 3) Gilead establishes a form of matriarchal control over women to destroy any female solidarity built by previous feminists. This matriarchal network exists within the supposed patriarchy. 3) The Ceremony is placed at the center of the novel and freedom comes in small forms in such an oppressive society.

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    The document summarizes several key concepts and plot points from The Handmaid's Tale: 1) Handmaids are isolated and relegated to the edges of the domestic sphere in Gilead. 2) Micro-stratification creates a hierarchical system that pits women against each other as well as men against women. 3) Gilead establishes a form of matriarchal control over women to destroy any female solidarity built by previous feminists. This matriarchal network exists within the supposed patriarchy. 3) The Ceremony is placed at the center of the novel and freedom comes in small forms in such an oppressive society.

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    The document summarizes several key concepts and plot points from The Handmaid's Tale: 1) Handmaids are isolated and relegated to the edges of the domestic sphere in Gilead. 2) Micro-stratification creates a hierarchical system that pits women against each other as well as men against women. 3) Gilead establishes a form of matriarchal control over women to destroy any female solidarity built by previous feminists. This matriarchal network exists within the supposed patriarchy. 3) The Ceremony is placed at the center of the novel and freedom comes in small forms in such an oppressive society.

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    Domestic periphery​- the handmaid’s are isolated then ​relegated(​assign an inferior rank or

    position to)​ them to the demonstic periphery which means the edge of a domestic circle.

    - There was an Underground Railroad that was used to free American slaves in the early
    and mid-1800’s. This is reformed into the Underground Female road in THMT that helps
    women. It is also mocked in the Historical Notes as ‘Underground Frailroad’.

    - The narrator’s life had been designed by the government to be uneventful and to not
    require independent thought; hence the tone of the novel is drab, flat and desensitized.

    - A fundamental form of irony is seen in the aspect of motherhood: mothers and


    motherhood is praised as one of the greatest achievements in the world, however,
    mothers are stripped of possessions, dignity, identity, and are ultimately stripped of their
    children.

    Deus ex Machina
    - Is an ancient Greek drama concept that a complex and twisted plot is resolved in the end
    by suddenly having a god-like character descend to punish the bad and reward the
    good.
    - Some critics see the sudden appearance of the Mayday group as a deus ex machina,
    that provides a happy ending that was sudden and not prepared for.

    Micro Stratification​ (classification of people into groups at a minute level)​ creates a


    hierarchical system of odd misogyny; where it is a society of women against women as well as
    men against women. Micro stratification can also be seen with how men are classed into a
    hierarchy as well.

    Atwood depicts viable backlash from current feminist momentum: the idea of
    gynocentric​(​centred on or concerned exclusively with women)​ misogyny and ‘traditional’
    misogyny combined with one militaristic socio-religious order.
    - Gilead establishes a form of matriarchal network; the epilogue (historical notes) affirms
    the purpose of matriarchy:​ “the best and most cost-effective way to control women for
    reproductive and other purposes was through women themselves”. ​This matriarchal
    network within a supposed patriarchy destroys any female solidarity worked for by
    feminists of the previous decades.

    Fictive autobiography
    The Ceremony is placed at the centre of the novel.
    Freedom is relative
    In an oppressive society, freedom comes in minute forms.

    Ecocriticism
    - A movement that considers the relationship between literature and the environment.
    - Focus on effects and consequences of environmental abuse and lack of environmental
    care.

    Both Frankenstein and the Handmaid’s tale looks at the idea of playing God-​ Gilead does what
    it believes God wants by abusing religion.

    Analepsis
    - Past event(s) are narrated at a point later than its chronological place in the story.

    Metafictive narration
    - Emphasises its own constructedness

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