The Handmaid’s Tale Random Analysis

Question 1

‘Garden’ ‘saint Serena’ ‘snipping of the seed pods’

Answer 1

The ‘garden’ represents Serena joy’s only true form of control as her other rights have ironically been stripped from her by the very regime she supported; Atwood suggested the garden as being a calm, peaceful haven away from the violence and threat of gilead by calling her ‘saint Serena’, who is ‘snipping the seed pods.’
A postmodern theorist might point out how atwood’s stream of consciousness allows the readers to learn of offred’s inner rebellion, where ‘what I coveted was the shears’ undermines te peace of Serena joy’s garden