THT CRITICAL THEORIES

EXISTENTIAL APOLOGIA

• desperate coping mechanism wo men use to survive,undermine devaluation, coercsion, enslavement etc 
• she clings to society through enjoyment of simple pleasures-smoothing lotion on her hands 
• recollects pleasant frivolities that owmen once enjoyed
• alleviation from present misery

ORAL HISTORY freqeunt vehicle of the oppressed

• turn to the personal narrative as a means of preserving experince 
• offred offers inside view of effecs of political chnage ti ordinary citizens 

SPECUALTIVE FICTION

• intenetionally unsettling blen of surmise and warning based on current policitical social and relig trends 
• offred compelled to tell her story 
• her bleak fictional mnarratve connects real events of 1980s with possibel rramifications for a society gone too far into conservatism and mutated form of ww1 facsism 

WOMEN

• aunts intense efforts at subordination and indoctrination
• turning women agaisnt women 
• though off resists brianwash-her refrence to…