Acculturation in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale | ||
| مجلة وادي النيل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية والتربويه | ||
| Article 2, Volume 36, Issue 36, October 2022, Pages 161-176 PDF (448.12 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jwadi.2022.268200 | ||
| Author | ||
| Azeemah Saad Al-Afifi* | ||
| Ph.D. In English Literature | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In this study, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood's cultural criticism is examined via the lens of acculturation theory. This research has a cross-sectional design and is theoretical. People from different backgrounds who come together experience cultural and psychological changes. Most of these groups have formed a variety of cultural, linguistic, and religious organizations since first coming together. When people are exposed to different cultures, both their own change and pollution.and those they visit, acculturation takes place. Due to issues with immigration, business, and other political issues, people migrate outside of their home nations to acclimate to new cultures, values, languages, and behaviours. Refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers are highlighted as a result. According to the finds, women are reduced to serving as child-bearing "vessels" to save the nation. This tale of a woman under oppression takes place in a world of dictatorship, constant watchfulness, and political manipulation. In both texts, writers depict a dystopia because a sizable section of the population is now infertile due to climate | ||
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