handmaids tale Flashcards
KEY CHAPTER- chapter one
‘night’ links to secrecy and sin but also darkness.
introduces the regime and lack of human liberty the women have
introduced into the theocratic state go gilead.
-lots of military imagery
-lack of privacy and darkness provides privacy and therefore constantly surveyed and controlled.
C1 ‘we slept in what had once been the gyumnasium’
-media res
-analepsis flashback
-uncanny of the gymnasium§
C1 ‘mini skirts, then pants, then in one earring,spiky green streaked hair.’
-asyndetic listing
-symbol of women’s liberation
- showing women through the decades
C1- ‘the lights were turned down but not out.’
constant survaylance
-inescapable
-dystopian
C7 ‘ it had a pretty woman on it, with no clothes on, hanging from the ceiling by chain wound round her hands.’
-allusion to pornography and alludes to moral. issue of women’s promiscuity
-this leads to extreme seniorship
C11- the doctor visits
killer moments- chapter 6
