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themes
gender roles rebellion religion love fertility memory
symbols
the eye colour red makeup reflection flowers costumes fruitfulness
motifs
rape religious terms feminism scrabble hanging bodies cigaretes
offred her real name
telling nick her names shows commitment not knowing name represents oppression
offred survivor
"i intend to last" she will not fully give in
offred internal freedom
gilead isn't able to take her thoughts
offred unique voice
she doesn't tell her fate as she is a symbol of freedom
offred and relationships
her desire for real love overrides her desire to escape
aunts
"in sorrow though bring children" painful birth for sins
offreds mother
"you young people don't appreciate things"
offreds child
"easier to think her dead" the unknown fate of daughter scares her
ofglen
"she has dies that i may live" sacrifice for the bigger cause
commander developing relationship
"i don't know what to call it it isn't love"
commander a cultured man
"compromised himself" because of the books and scrabble
commander sexism
"can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" justifys oppression
commander hypocrisy
there is a brothel for the highest people in gilead
commanders fortune
professor believes he "met his end"
luke the facts
offred had affair with him she always tries to see him in positive light
luke symbol of intimacy
"i want to be held told my name" offred misses their love
luke symbol of protection
"squeezes my hand" holds offered as they try to escape
luke gender equality
"instead i am his" offred looses job fears change in their relationship
lukes fate
offred never reveals what she believes happens to him he is a symbol of hope
serena object of fear
"i wouldn't have liked her nor she me"
serena appearance
"hostile blue" eyes
serenas life
the garden is her "domain"
serenas manipulation of women
"she's known all along" about offreds daughter
serenas defeat
"bitch after all he did for you"
moiras unconventionality
"if i were moira i'd know how to take apart" she understood mechanics
moiras subversive humour
"talking like that does you good" language id voice against oppression
moiras heroic resistance
"moira was our fantasy" offreds idol
moiras defeat
"i don't want her to be like me" "give in go along" at jezabels
nicks non conformity
"tilted at jaunty angle" subtle rebellion
nicks body language
"for the moment were mirrors" when they're alone together in living room
nicks deepening relationship
"tanned skin moist in the sun" offred describing nick
nick love or just intercourse
"i want to be here with nick" offred desires him
offreds trust in nick
"therefore i am known" offred tells nick her name
dystopian features
unjust society oppression power struggle damaged environments rebellion rebuilding society extreme ideologies
atwoods context
after ww2 large environment concerns 1980 antifeminist movement rise of religious right 1984 for women vice president candidate
readers context
nuclear war donald trump katie hopkins growing up with wars
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