Find a theme song for The Handmaid's Tale. Include: the title of the song, a link to the song on YouTube, what the theme is and why you chose it, and a direct quote to support your choice. Song sample example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc
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For my theme song of “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, I choose “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have- but i have it” by Lana Del Rey. (link). The song is told from the perspective of a fragile woman, who feels she does not match up to the feminist woman she feels she is and should be inside, because of her depression, traumas, and lack of outspoken courage. She compares herself to the women who make headlines for their bravery, and in turn, feels less than a woman because she could never picture herself doing the same. It is not that she lacks the will, but rather, lacks the sight to see that power within herself. In the line, “a modern day woman with a weak constitution, 'cause I've got monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off”, Lana emphasizes this fragile part of herself, and again compares it to the powerful women of her current time that she feels she could never match up to. This song reminded me of Offred’s character. Offred herself is not a feminist, yet in a subtle way, she does not like the society she is trapped in, and searches for a solution, refusing to accept that fact that she must bolster her own courage, and stand up for herself alongside other women. Offred’s fragility has been chosen in her own mind, having grown up and watched her mother fight, along with other large groups of women, only to reject that ideal and now be suffering the consequences. - regan a. allen
ReplyDeleteLana Del Ray is good artists to relate to "The Handmaid's Tale." Lana expresses herself in a way that shows she is more than what she is worth as a women. -Emily Ally
Deletelink didn't post, trying this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY2LUmLw_DQ (regan a. allen)
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Adele: Skyfall
https://youtu.be/DeumyOzKqgI
A signature tune I believed that would fit the conditions in "The Handmaid's Tale" would be "Skyfall" by Adele. Adele states in her tune "You may have my number, you can take my name, But you'll never have my heart" this verse can be communicated from an artist who has been going through certain difficulties as a woman in the public eye. The one she is confronting it with is basically her spirit, the mix of her self image appears to obliterate the world, however it annihilates the old perspective of the world and makes another viewpoint. In "The Handmaid's Tale" the ones who were in Gilead were being treated as political instruments. The ladies had gone through bunches of difficulties and must be degraded in order to flourish in Gilead. The women can't cast a ballot, hold property or occupations, read, or do whatever else that may permit them to get free and in this way sabotage their spouses or Gilead. Notwithstanding the entirety of Gilead's looks towards ladies, such enslavement makes a general public wherein ladies are treated as not exactly human. They are treated as just a bunch of ovaries and a belly. In one of the key scenes, Offred lies in the shower and mirrors that, before Gilead, she thought of her body as an instrument; presently, she is only encompassing a belly that should be taken care of in request to make her valuable. Gilead looks to deny ladies of their life to make them quiet transporters of the future.
This is a good song as I also believe that Offred struggles to gain some freedoms and this song is a good mirror to the book.
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ReplyDeleteThe song I choose was “We’re not going to take it” by Twisted Sister. The reason I choose this song is because of the act of rebellion that Offred does at the end of the book. At the end when she decides to run away with the Mayday members. I choose this song because of the lyrics “We’re not going to take it anymore, we’ve got the right to choose it” this shows Offred’s feelings how she finally breaks when she finds out the Ofglen committed suicide. She then feels empowerment in that she then chooses to make the decision to leave and hope for a better life.
https://youtu.be/4xmckWVPRaI
This song seems fitting, as it represents the handmaid's feelings of being fed up with the laws of Gilead. -Thomas
DeleteThis is very good, I never considered rebellion as a theme in the book. -Maggie
DeleteThomas Stewart
ReplyDeleteThe song I chose was "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore. I chose this song because the entire message of the song has to do with women wanting to have their own individuality and not having to follow the command of men. This directly relates with the Handmaid's Tale because the women of Gilead share a similar motive in wanting to break free from the oppressive rule of Gilead and the men that control it. "So just let me be myself, that's all I ask of you." This quote represents the feelings of many women in Gilead, especially Offred, who is constantly reminded of her old self and how she so desperately wants to regain that sense of self-identity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDUjeR01wnU
I like your emphasis on individuality in the book. -Maggie
DeleteAs I chose a theme song for Handmaid’s Tale I found that the song “God is A Woman” by Ariana Granda to be a fitting song as both pieces have a similar message. In this book the world of Gilead is created where Christianity is at the heart of life and women lose their rights as the men rise to power. Some of the restrictions placed on women were the creation of the handmaid system and the laws passed that forbid women from reading. Such restricts made women feel oppressed at destroyed what was a progressive, but still improving world around, and replaced it with an anti-feminist world. Despite this, this book is seen as a feminist novel as it explores the obstacles that the main character overcomes while fighting for women in Gilead. The song I chose is fitting for this book because both have a similar message of women empowerment and send strong feminist messages. The song repeats the line, “You'll believe God is a woman” throughout the song to emphasize the power of a woman. Not only does she believe women have the strength compared to God, but so much so that she believes she convinces that world of this belief in her address to the crowd. While in the book June must first find the power of women in herself then she truly believes and wants to share this belief with others in Gilead. -Maggie
ReplyDeleteI really like the song you picked as a theme song. I think it matches up really well- Caitlin
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4-17-21
As a theme song for the "Handmaid's Tale" I chose "Waiting on the World to Change" by John Mayer. I felt this song was a good fit for this book because they both have similar messages. In the Handmaid's Tale Atwood is expressing the inequalities of women and how they are not treated fairly. In John Mayer's song, the first lines are "Me and my friends, We're all misunderstood, They say we stand for nothing and There's no way we ever could. Now we see everything that's going wrong with the world and those who lead it, We just feel like we don't have the means to rise above and beat it." These lyrics are very similar to the message Atwood protrays in her story because she talks about how the women in the book are mistreated and men see them more as property than as human beings, which is shown when Offred mentions how that is not her real name but her real name is forbidden. In John Mayer's song he is talking about how everyone says him and his friends aren't worth much and even tho they want to rise and fix what's wrong with the world everyone tells them they are not strogn enough to do that. -Caitlin F