마가렛 앳우드의 『시녀이야기』에 나타난 생태적 상상력 (Ecological Imagination in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale)

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초록

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a novel about a virtual republic called Gilead, which is built and completed by Christian fundamentalists. Gilead is an utterly dystopian space where people are imprisoned and oppressed in the name of religion. The reason for the author to press hard in this novel the anti-utopian situations to an extreme against humanism is to suggest a true utopian value in the end. In this work, there is a utopian space that exists along with dystopian situations or exists independently. This world is implied in the images of the flower and the garden, and it is tinted with the color red. The flower which appears at regular intervals in this fiction is closely connected to Offred's sexuality. The erotic connection between the flower and the woman's body is a core element in the garden and the vegetal imagination. In this novel, a fundamental difference also arises between utopia and dystopia. Moisture and warmth are not only the basic conditions for creation of life; they are also essential substances for utopia. This study, therefore, is an attempt to search for a place where the utopia is connected with vegetability and sexuality.

영어초록

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a novel about a virtual republic called Gilead, which is built and completed by Christian fundamentalists. Gilead is an utterly dystopian space where people are imprisoned and oppressed in the name of religion. The reason for the author to press hard in this novel the anti-utopian situations to an extreme against humanism is to suggest a true utopian value in the end. In this work, there is a utopian space that exists along with dystopian situations or exists independently. This world is implied in the images of the flower and the garden, and it is tinted with the color red. The flower which appears at regular intervals in this fiction is closely connected to Offred's sexuality. The erotic connection between the flower and the woman's body is a core element in the garden and the vegetal imagination. In this novel, a fundamental difference also arises between utopia and dystopia. Moisture and warmth are not only the basic conditions for creation of life; they are also essential substances for utopia. This study, therefore, is an attempt to search for a place where the utopia is connected with vegetability and sexuality.

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