The implausibility of a possible world without love. «The Handmaid’s Tale», Margaret Atwood.

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24197/cel.10.2019.1-22

Keywords:

Possible worlds, Margaret Atwood, dystopia, verisimilitude, social structures

Abstract

Abstract:  The dystopian possible worlds are characterized by the almost absolute absence of fictional components related to love. That makes them uninhabitable. In Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale the possible world appears to lack the social structures of love. This fact would make its world´s general order incredible because it does not represent the social structures that constitute the effective real world. Through microstructural analysis, the article pretends to demonstrate, that although hidden, love allusions are present in this dystopian world, which make it intelligible and significant.

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Author Biography

  • Victoria Hernández Ruiz, Francisco de Vitoria University

    Victoria Hernández Ruiz

    German Language Philology Degree. Master’s Degree in Education. Master’s Degree in Humanities. PhD student with doctoral thesis: Subcreation of Possible Worlds: Humanistic Macrostructure in Brideshead Revisited.

    Coordinator of Humanities Degree in UFV.

    Teacher in charge of course, Professor of Literature in Visual Arts, Style, Spanish Language Didactics and Ancient and Medieval Literature.

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Published

2019-01-28

Issue

No. 10 (2019)

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ARTICLES

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The implausibility of a possible world without love. «The Handmaid’s Tale», Margaret Atwood. (2019). Castilla. Estudios De Literatura, 10, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.24197/cel.10.2019.1-22