Como se dão as manifestações da palavra, do discurso e do silêncio no sistema totalitário e repressivo no Conto da Aia

Abstract

The present research aims to study the women’s silencing and oppression in the book The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), by Margaret Atwood, from the perspective of Pêcheux’s discourse analysis. This paper will be developed based on qualitative research. We will operationalize some concepts from the perspective of Discourse Analysis (2012) such as discourse, interdiscourse, subject, ideology. We will also approach the forms of silence proposed by Eni P. Orlandi (2011) who divides silence into two: founding silence and silencing, which in turn is subdivided into constitutive silence and local silence. This work is organized into five chapters, the first is an introductory chapter. On chapter two, we will bring some considerations about Pecheut's Discourse Analysis. On chapter three, we will continue our journey with a synthesis of The Handmaid’s Tale to contextualize the discourses that will be analysed. In the fourth chapter, a brief history of the feminist movement will be made. On the fith chapter, it will be sought in the text the various silences are manifested within the narrative and its conditions of production. We will problematize the position of women and what forms of silencing are articulated for female oppression.