The Girl in the Box

A Resistance in Red: Ideographs in The Handmaid's Tale

“…Perhaps one reason the show acts as a rallying cry and a unifier is that unlike the novel, the television version of The Handmaid's Tale features a main character who demonstrates more overt willpower and desire to resist than the same character in the novel (Trope, 2018). Trope claims the highlighting of June as a resistant character has to do with the medium and the conventions of the genre: "the Hulu version, abiding by Hollywood standards, gives us the girl power version" (p. 188).…”

“…Researchers who examine The Handmaid's Tale television show often take a rhetorical approach. Given the medium, a visual rhetorical analysis of the show is particularly useful (Hendershot, 2018;Klair, 2018;Leyda, 2018;Moeggenburg & Solomon, 2018;Trope, 2018). I…”