A woman's place: uma análise comparativa da personagem Serena Joy do livro para as telas

Abstract

This article aims to undertake a comparative analysis of the adaptation of the character Serena Joy of the book The Handmaid’s tale (1985) for the homonymous television series produced by the streaming channel Hulu (2017-2018). The above-mentioned work presents a dystopian world where the Sons of Jacob, a fundamentalist religious group which through a military coup, deposes the democratic government of the United States and establishes the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state that imposes repression on individual freedom and divide them in castes and the women should perform certain functions according to their biological capacity. The female character Serena Joy is the main representative of the Wives, a group of women married to the commanders of Gilead, who has the highest possible social status for women in the Gileade Republic. Therefore, this article we'll look at how the character was adapted from the book to the television series. As a theoretical basis, we have used Even-Zohar (1990), Lefevere (1992), Brito (1995), Ribeiro (2005) and Hutcheon (2013), who base the concept of intersemiotic translation and discuss essential aspects of film adaptation and Candido (2011) that discusses the concept of character in the literary work.