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In The Handmaid ’s Tale Atwood questions why people so often cooperate with totalitarian regimes, and she draws on the history of the Third Reich to demonstrate that visual culture can help create a climate that suggests that resistance to the regime is futile.

Atwood reveals the danger of using visual culture to create a "glossy surface image" (Chow 24) that simplifies complex ideologies and social relationships, and she suggests that individuals can resist visual manipulation by learning to "read beneath" images (Handmaid’s 105).

Fascist Style in Gilead

In essence, white Australians attempted to deal with the “Native Question” by systematically destroying the cultural identity of the Nyoongah peoples, first by using violent action to subdue Aboriginal rebellion and then by absorbing Aboriginal children into white culture or marginalizing Aboriginal families on isolated settlements.

It is also clear that A. O. Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines, does not protect the Nyoongah peoples, but rather encourages their absorption and marginalization.

Joe Millimurra reads aloud an article from an Anglo-Australian newspaper, which recounts a celebration for the first white settlers in Australia who faced dangers “in the shape of three lorries…carrying Aborigines.”