Chapter 1 Flashcards
Chapter 1 summary
Offred is introduced, Army imagery is introduced, The handmaids are in the red centre, Angels and Aunts are patrolling.
Chapter 1 - the aunts
Aunt Lydia and Aunt Elizabeth ‘patrolled’ while the women slept in ‘army cots’ they had ‘cattle rods’
‘No guns though they could not be trusted with guns’
Dynamic verb - patrolled - Prisons or more army imagery between
Stative Verb - trusted - the patriarchy - still inferior to men
Noun phrase - cattle rods - Treated as livestock - links to brutality
‘Aunts’ ‘Angels - links to theocracy - Irony that they are utilising weapons - maternal (protectors) - propaganda for safety or in the name as religion - nuns are called sisters - twisted version of religion
Chapter 1 red centre
‘Tried to sleep in army cots’ - Stative verb inability to have peace of mind/noun phrase uniformity/ conformity , occupying not hers(identity)
‘Could not talk’ - modal verb dystopia constant state of fear -independent thought stripped
‘Like children’s’ (flannelette sheets) - infantilisation -choices stripped, everything done for them (dystopia)
‘Neatly’ - adverb - regimen - perfect society - all the same identity
