Use of Imagery Flashcards
Where is yonic imagery used?
-The flower’s (tulips) in Serena’s garden
What do flowers represent?
-Fertility
-The handmaids
What pages have flower imagery?
51, 23/24, 157
Where is animal imagery used?
-Animal costumes in Jezebel’s —> bird, rabbit
-Cattle prods
-Prized pig
What do the animal costumes represent?
-Rabbit —> Playboy, prey animal
-Bird —> Bird’s sing = performance
What does animal imagery represent?
-Animalistic treatment of women, dehumanising
What pages have animal imagery?
75, 237/238, 247, 249
Where is nature imagery used?
Serena’s garden
Where is imagery of the past used?
-Hanging bodies on the wall
-Hotel room
-Highschool
What do the hanging bodies represent?
-Control in a totalitarian state
-Humiliation
-Even men are harmed
-Childlike description
What pages is the imagery of the past on?
38, 1
What does nature represent?
-Freedom —> to love and relationships
-Destruction of the world/society
What pages is nature imagery on?
39, 157, 245
Where is childlike imagery?
-“Talking Doll”
-Description of the hanging bodies
What does childlike imagery represent?
-Helplessness and lack of control
-Contrast of freedom during childhood and controlled adulthood
What pages is childlike imagery on?
38
What pages is religious imagery on?
29, 201
What page is weapon imagery on?
178
