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Original storyboard. It shows a room in a dystioian city with floating poles surrounding a table. On the table is a bottle with what I wahat to be represented as a cooking oil of some hot-pressed-seed variety. The frames on the right hand side depict some kind of other time (could be past of future) in which the poles are still there but are instead surrounded by nature and classically inspired pillars.

I want to merge both of these separate entities into a compilation/hazey cuts of each part, using premiere filters to create distortion.

[dearingbooks]

Handmaid’s Tale

Maragret Atwood

9/10

This dystopian speculative novel explores second wave feminism, public executions and the use of handmaidens-  events that have happened at some point in time, which makes it all the more frightening.

This novel is narrated by the homodiegetic overt narrator, Offred, a Handmaid in the novel which offers a sense of unreliability around the novel as Offred states in the novel in multiple ways that it is a ‘reconstruction’ and did not happen exactly that way; this raises questions of how much of Offred’s narrative actually happened. The name ‘Offred’ is derived from the Commander she serves and her name will change when she goes to serve a different Commander.

This lack of individuality present in the novel combined with key dystopian themes such as surveillance, reproductive control and suppression, can foreshadow the future for our society, which is why the novel made a popular comeback when Trump was elected and many people across the globe have taken up the red outfit and white wings of the Handmaid’s to symbolise the future of the world, in a way predicted by Atwood.

#handmaid #the handmaid's tale #atwood #dystioian #book recommendations #handmaids tale #novel #recommendations #dystopian books

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Banned Book Episodes

Nothing hits quite like a banned book - here is a comprehensive list of episodes from Season 1 of the podcast that are about banned and challenged books:

The Sorcerer’s Chamber of Secret Stones  -  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling  banned: magic and witchcraft

Batman, Ryan Evans, & Chalamet  - Little Women by Lousia May Alcott   banned: the women depicted were free to make their own choices and do as they pleased challenged: the roles of the females didn't push hard enough and plays into gender traditional roles

Always Winter - The Lion, The Witch, & the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis banned: depicts graphic violence, mysticism, and gore & not politically correct for school reading

Monty & Jules - Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare challenged: encourages teenage sex, glorifies teen suicide, drugs, and disobedience of parental authority

Okay? Okay. - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green challenged: deals with dying

The Start of the Dystioian Revolution  - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  banned: insensitivity, offensive language, anti-family, anti-ethic, and occult

You Actually Fainted  - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling banned: magic and witchcraft

#banned book week #banned books #books #LeagueOfLitPodcast