O papel da mulher no matriarcado da Gilead de Os Testamentos e de O Conto da Aia, de Margaret Atwood

Abstract

This work seek to develop a brief overview of dystopias as a literary genre and socialpolitical organization, drawing comparisons between the feminist waves (especially the 2nd and 4th) with the reality that surrounds us and tje concepts of matriarchy and patriarchy. From these discussions, the novels The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and The Testaments (2019), by Margaret Atwood, are analyzed, making it possible to draw the necessary parallels to understand the true roles of women in the dystopian society of Gilead. The main objective in this analisysis is to investigate the positions given to each of the classes of women within this theocratic-totalitarian society, analyzing their actions and considerations regarding what was imposed on them, in order to conjecture about the true impact they have on society’s political and social structure of the Gileadean regime. Thus, the spaces and structures of power present in this society are discussed and questioned and how much of what was experienced by the women who composed it was relevant enough to reverberate inside and outside the autor’s works, while, even so present, they still end up being invalidated at the end of each one of the works.