Handmaids Tale-propoganda

Gilead: We are fascinated, but also repelled. They seem undressed. It has taken so little time to change our minds about things like this This illustrates how the

minds of the population have been manipulated to make them comply with the Government’s views. Like in most totalitarian societies, the Gilead Government uses

propaganda to manipulate the people’s minds into following their ideologies and supporting the government. The propaganda methods depicted in ‘The

Handmaid’s Tale’ are also similar to those used in totalitarian governments of this century. Propaganda in the novel concentrates mainly on women, as they are the

elements of society that have lost the most due to the establishment of the new government and they must therefore be controlled and convinced the most. I will

now examine some of the methods of propaganda used to persuade women, and try to explain their purposes and effects. The Gilead society is based on one of

the many possible interpretations of the biblical philosophy. The bible being a very respected, trusted and followed

things for our own good. . . . All of us here will lick you into shape, says Aunt Lydia, with satisfied cheer.” Women that have passed their menopause or are infertile

but we can suppose that even though many women probably don’t support the government completely, most of them try not to interfere with it due to the situation

indoctrination at the Rachel and Leah Re-education Centre. The aim of the indoctrination centres is to change ordinary women into complacent Handmaids using

of terror that has been created by the propaganda

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