In my thesis I discuss the theme of violence in Ivan Cankar's novel Hiša Marije Pomočnice and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Violence against women and children is established in society because of the unequal distribution of power. In my research I analyze how authors did presented the problem. I focus on the autobiographical elements, the narrative space and time, the type of narrative and certain motives related to the representation of violence. I use a comparative method to identify the different representations and modes of violence in the novels. I analyse at which places in the novels Althusser's concept of the ideological apparatuses of the state and Foucault's concept of biopolitics are realised.
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