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Gender - Coggle Diagram

- - - - However, Bradbury said in 2003 that he agreed with the director Truffaut's decision to keep her alive at the end of the film, suggesting that her death and depiction in general was a product of the 1950s, and not necessarily a deeper point about gender.
- - - - "In this house, we all envy each other of something."
      - "The Econowives do not like us."
      - "The truth is she [Ofglen] is my spy, and I am hers."
      - "Friendships are suspicious."
      - The Testifyings: "Her fault. Her fault. Her fault."
      - "The Marthas are not supposed to fraternise with us."
      - The Ceremony is designed to be humiliating ("sweaty flesh triangles") so the Wives blame the Handmaids. E.g. Serena Joy's rings cutting into Offred's fingers.
  - - - Highlights Offred's powerlessness as "the knowledge of his power was nevertheless in the air." "He's enjoying this, sympathy and all."
      - Proves that surveillance is successful because it causes internalisation: "It's the choice that terrifies me. A way out, a salvation."
      - Pamela Cooper has argued that the doctor introduces the over-controlling patriarchal gaze of totalitarianism into the most private of all spheres, the human body.
      - He could represent the male gaze as the golden eye painted in his office creates a clear association with the Eyes. Liam Floyd describes this as a "medical Eye that operates on an interpersonal level."
    - - "We get these cases
        nine or ten a night."
      - "It had an Eye." Symbol of surveillance that could "gaze into the soul of the person whom he was pumping out."
      - Described as a "cobra." The negative connotations of the snake simile emphasises how invasive this technology is