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• Analyse du chapitre 23 de the handmaid's tale

  What is striking is the repeated use of similes. A simile is a figure of speech which consists in comparing two unlikely things using like or as or as if. A metaphor does the same without the words as or like. Studying those similes, we notice that they reveal deep themes and literary motifs that characterise The Handmaid’s Tale. First, “as if” + PRETERIT introduces propositions that are not real. The narrator, Offred compares herself “as if I’m a kitten in a window”. It’s both association...