The Handmaid's Tale - Main themes
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- Created on: 31-03-16 10:51
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- The Handmaid's Tale - Main Themes
- Gender roles
- hierachical society
- women who have positions of power are still not enough powerful
- institutional adultery
- Religion and theocracy
- religion and state are combined
- warping of the essential virtues like charity, tolerance and forgiveness
- criticism of the way that people and theocracies use the bible for their own oppressive purposes
- fertility
- source of the Handmaid's captivity and their power
- ideal of fertility in flower description and past with Luke
- body's functions are valuable, but not personhood
- Rebellion
- disobedience against the regime
- community minded - organized resistance
- small - scale rebellions
- to show the unlivable Gilead and the unsteadinessof its foundation
- Love
- daydream rather than to rebel
- permits to certain characters to survive
- most effective force for good
- love is the best way to get around Gilead's rules
- Story telling and Memory
- framing the whole novel as a story
- storytelling as a pastime
- celebration of the past (Night chapters)
- Gender roles
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