‘In Burning Red’ – Red as the Color of Female Shame in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
This paper explores the color symbolism employed in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale. It argues that the color red is used to mark the female protagonists—the handmaids—as shameful, sinful outcasts, and compares and contrasts them to the other color-coded women (mainly, the ‘blu...
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University of Graz
2023-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubg:4-46673 |
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