Language As A Powerful And Healing Device In Three Contemporary Canadian Novels.
This essay aims at analysing the use of language as an extremely powerful instrument to gain freedom back and to recover from a past of sufferance and victimization in three major Canadian contemporary novels: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces and Joy Kogawa's Obasan.
LANGUAGE: the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting in the use of words in a structured and conventional way. (Oxford Dictionary of English,2003)
By analysing the theme of language in these three novels, the very different stories narrated will meet in some important aspects.
The first novel analysed is The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood in 1985 and belonging to that genre called dystopian, or non-utopian novel (like George Orwell's 1984).
Atwood locates a nightmarish story in the United States of the last part of the 20th century, and more specifically in the Republic of Gilead (the former state of Maine), a totalitarian state......
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