Chapter 1 - Gymnasium- The Handmaid's Tale

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  • Chapter 1 - Gymnasium
    • Structural significance= beginning of the novel = setting out the scene- repression at its highest- world is similar yet unfamiliar at the same time.
    • Language- The aunts "patrolled" and "cattle prods" - dehumanisation, not human, inferior race, used//processed. Characterised as guards-Also links to women complicit in their own repression.
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