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- The individual is made part of the whole system and shares responsibility for every aspect of it
- her refusal to be beaten by the regime
- resilient, she remains cynical and refuses to believe the distorted doctrine
- refusal to be silenced when she tells her story as a warning
- she celebrates the past
- love and human touch
- freedoms
- preciousness and fragility of what we take for granted
- individual identity
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- reduction of women to their biological function and keep them silent and subservient
- Celebration of love
- She does not idealism her relationship with luke
- her memories of Luke provide her with an image of herself as a lover, wife and mother
- the relationship with the commander is purely a grotesquely a sexual one
- lively sense of the self in the meetings with the Commander
- His explanation of the Latin phrase shatters its mystical hope and charm for her, and she also learns of his affair with her predecessor
- The love for Nick makes her rescue
- Nick is the embodiment of Offred's sexual desire and hunger to be loved
- Their love represents the forbidden combination of desire and rebellion which provides Offred with hope
- Nick has a function of refuge for Offred
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