The Handmaid's Tale Surveillance Quotes

We learned to whisper almost without sound

Whisper

'perhaps he is an Eye'

The eyes

Winged eye in white on the side

Eye propaganda

Might be testing me

Paranoia in the Commander

It's a mistake to hang back

Appearing to be indoctrinated

When people believe they are under surveillance so a person censors their actions.

Panoptic surveillance

More secretive and done without a persons knowledge when a person believes they are in a private situation.

Surreptitious surveillance

"I would not include anything that human beings has not already done in some other place or time."

Atwood

Atwood had experience in being spied on in her travels in Europe

Atwood

All children participated in a group called the spies, later named Hitler Youth

Nazi Germany

Security service in Germany informing the government. 190,000 informants. Even listening to the wrong music was reported.

Stasi Germany