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Summary and Analysis of The Handmaid's Tale

  • Angela Brinkhas quoted6 years ago
    torn the country, and nuclear power accidents along the San Andreas Fault have devastated the western seaboard. Fertility has been badly affected by pollution and disease. The president and the senate are dead, murde
  • b4886527440has quoted7 years ago
    horribly, the typical response is to feel that such things can’t happen to you. This is Offred’s explanation of that phenomenon. In The Handmaid’s Tale, there is a secondary meaning: The Handmaids are literally marginalia. They’re sidelined from everything except childbearing, and once they’re too old for that, they are discarded.
    “Better never means better for everyone.
  • b4886527440has quoted7 years ago
    that of wife to a lower-class man; such women play all the female roles which are performed separately by Marthas, Wi
  • b4886527440has quoted7 years ago
    Prayvaganza: A mass marriage ceremony for eligible girls or a mass celebration for male veterans returning from the war. Attendance is segregated by gender
  • b4886527440has quoted7 years ago
    The red assigned to Handmaids serves a dual purpose: Red for blood, like menstrual blood, symbolizing fertility; scarlet to symbolize fallen women. Blue is for the Wives—it is the color of the Virgin Mary’s dress, symbolizing the purity, goodness, and power that the Wives are supposed to hold
  • b4886527440has quoted7 years ago
    ironically, although her tale is now taking center stage, she’s still being treated as property: a historical curiosity rather than a real person.
  • b4886527440has quoted7 years ago
    As a female character, she exemplifies the plight of the ordinary woman caught up in events beyond her control.
  • b4886527440has quoted7 years ago
    Offred wishes she had done something
  • b4886527440has quoted7 years ago
    fatal flaw is her early evangelism, which helped to bring this state about. She is described as a ty
  • b4886527440has quoted7 years ago
    Be careful what you wish for.”
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