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Y12 The Handmaid's Tale - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Page. 18. - ‘Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said.’ Forced to believe their conditions are a privilege. Perception of freedom.
        
        Page. 43. ‘Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.’ Gilead’s perspective of freedom, and what they’re willing to offer. Use of the word ordinary is significant- their new justice system.
        
        Page. 34. ‘There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.’ “Freedom from” the world before. Aunt Lydia manipulating Offred into believing her current situation is one of a priveleged person’s
  - - - Page. 13. - ‘And army-issue blankets, old ones that stilll said U.S’ The term still describes the differences of the U.S before and now (Current timeline in book). Implications of a different value and system.
  - - - Page. 33. ‘The Republic of Gilead, said Aunt Lydia, knows no bounds. Gilead is within you.’ Psychological imprisonment. You can never escape Gilead, as it’s even within you.
- - - - Chapter 1 : (p.10) "we learned to whisper almost without sound"
      - Chapter 1 : (p.10) list of names "Alma. Janine. Dolores. Moira. June"
      - Chapter 2 : (p.20) " We would exchange remedies and try to outdo each other in the recital of our physical miseries"
      - Chapter 2 : (p.21)"The Marthas are not supposed to fraternize with us"
      - Chapter 3 : (p.24) "She then was a woman who might bend the rules"
      - Chapter 4: (p.29) " she is my spy, as I am hers"
      - Chapter 27 : (p.177) "You can join us", "You didn't think I was the only one", "hope is rising in me, like sap in a tree. Blood in a wound. We have made an opening."
    - - Chapter 2 : (p.121) "I hunger to commit the act of touch"
      - Chapter 4 : (p.31) " bends his head to try to get a look at my face", "I raise my head a little, to help him". "he sees my eyes and I see his", "What if I were to come at night, when he's on duty alone"
      - Chapter 4 : (p.32) "They touch with their eyes instead"
      - Chapter 27 : (p.176) "What I see is not the machines, but Ofglen, reflected in the glass of the window. She's looking straight at me."
    - - Chapter 22 : (p.143) "Nevertheless Moira was our fantasy", " In the light of Moira-their power had a flaw to it"
- - - - the power of the dog bone
        
        "I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there." page28-32
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        "They will suffer, later at night, in their regiment beds. They have no outlets now except themselves" page 28-32.
  - - - 'Six more bodies, by the necks'
  - - - Aunts 'had electric cattle prods' (page-14)
        
        'black, for Commander, blue, for the Commander's wife, and the one assigned to me, which id red'(page 19). The handmaids clothing and accessories are mostly in red.
        
        Offred is isolated and being separated from the Marthas. 'I listen outside closed doors, Page 20.'
      - 'Angels stood outside'
- - - - I Forgor💀
    - - Figurative language
        
        "cardboard devils
        
        "Sister dipped in blood"
        
        "Like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out"
- - - - "Offred" = Of Fred
    - - p. 18 "Not my room, I refuse to say my..."
      - p.20 "it's not Rita's, no more my table is mine"
  - - - p.17 "We had flanelette sheets, like children's"
  - - - p.22 "...theres always something that can be exchanged...so what did i have, to trade"
- - - - Psycological
        Chap 3: The Commander's Wife (p.22-26)
        "as if they have been cut and are beginning to heal there"
        Chap 3: The Commander's Wife (p.22-26)
        "they aren't scarves for grown men but for children..unraveled and knitted again in their turn"
        Chap 3: The Commander's Wife (p.22-26)
        "It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained"
        
        Psychological
        Chap 3: The Commander's Wife (p.22-26) "What does she envy me? ... I am a reproach to her...and a necessity"
        Chap 3: The Commander's Wife (p.22-26)
        "cigarettes...come from the black market...this gave me hope"
        Chap 3: The Commander's Wife (p.22-26)
        "always something that can be exchanged...a woman who might bend the rules...what did I have, to trade?"
        Chap 3: The Commander's Wife (p.22-26)
        "so old what's his face didn't work out...this is your second isn't it?...I've read your file...this is like a business transaction...if I get trouble I'll give trouble back."
        Chap 3: The Commander's Wife (p.22-26)
        "eyelids were tired looking...eyes...flat hostile blue of a midsummer sky in bright sunlight, a blue that shuts you out...two lines led downward from the corners of her mouth...chin, clenched like a fist."
  - - - Futuristic mindset, focusing not on the present but on whats to come.
        Chap 2: Offred's room (p.17-19) "`thought must be rationed...thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last."