The handmaid’s tale. public beatings and public hangings are common in gilead -why? discuss the function of violence in the novel.

Public beatings and hangings were a way to instill fear in certain groups of people or to the general population. It was a way for authority figures at the time to control those who wanted freedom or equal rights from oppressing laws. Servants or field workers were often beaten to teach them a lesson, to discipline them and to show those who witnessed it that they would bear the same fate if they disobeyed the rules.  

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in this passage from "animal farm", by george orwell, the statement that best explains how boxer's response supports the author's purpose in writing an allegory is option b) orwell uses boxer's decision to avoid more carnage by working hard to show how the working class was manipulated. boxer and the other animals feel they are responsible for their carnage because napoleon uses propaganda to manipulate the animals of the farm.

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