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The Handmaid's Tale (people (Offred? June? (main character, I don'…
The Handmaid's Tale
people
Offred? June?
main character, I don't think we actually know the name
lived a "normal" life before all this, was taken away from her loved ones, same as all the other handmaidens
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thoughts
Everytime the handmaidens talk it kind of sounds like a script, they say what they have been taught to say
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page 49- how her mom fond out she was taken??? how she likes to think of it as a story even though it's real
The story
There is a war
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there are no children in the streets, the whole town looks like a "model town"
universities are closed, there are no doctors, no lawyers not anything left
Several women are kept in a kind of facility (old abandoned gymnasium), they have special rules and need to wear special clothes etc.
quote from introduction page x1 "They must learn to renounce their previous identities, to know their place and their duties, to understrand that they have no real rights but will be protected up to a point if they conform, and to think so poorly off themselves that they will accept theirassigned fate and not rebel and run away".
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"The government" tries to find medical records and kill doctors who've made abortions, they hang them up so the handmaids can see them, they're meant to feel scared
The marthas
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Cora and Rita, one wants to escape to tle colonies- other one think thats crazy, they're still relieved they're not handmaidens