THT CHAP AND ANALYSIS

CHAP 1-NIGHT

• gynasium scene-alma, dolores,moia, june etc 
• sleeping in barracks beaneath flannel sheets and army blankets 
• conteomplate yeearning for flreedom 
• reach out and try and touch hands 
• aunts electric cattle prods 
• guards outside 
• twice daily walks 

ANALYSIS

• powerful motifs 
• gym=palimpset
• for all gileads hiercahy-fails to readicate normal human acitivity of pre gilead period 
• secen infused with sight and smells and sexuality of past 
• juxposition inncoence and brutality-'aunts' but sadistsic 
• ullusion of pretction barned wire
• sara and elizabeth-old testamnet names represneting motherhood/modern cosmetci products 
• third motid heomtrci absolutes-insitnce on indoctrination 

CHAP 2

• offred a handmids 
• her red habit, and sets herself goal not to think to much
• tries to avoid seran etc 
• five weeks prior to openeing scsne-arrived at house and serean ' i want to see as little of you as possible'
• 'buisness transaction'
• when walking with oflegn passes nick-winks provcatibley 
• she faers he a sphy 
• town dveoid of humanity 
• sets her on mem of pat-whe had nail varnish etd 
• when waiting in line sees janine 'vastly pregant'
• past chirhc and wall

ANAYLYSIS

• sertility and coerism of an enforoced notion of motherhood 
• refuses to think of ceel as 'my'
• persisient colour motif=menstruation
• blood colour 'defines us'
• her name 'of fred' and 'off red'-hint at her rebellion
• bland nurtious diet 

CHAP 3 NIGHT

• recalls college with moira and childhood in park-mum in millitant feminist gathering burn pornograohic mags 
• then shifts to offs failed escape to canda and being drugged into oblivion -so she would forget abduction of daughter 
• clinging to sanity-tells her story to an invicisble narrative 

ANALYSIS

• period of violnce seperate her two lifes
• atwood composes loose shreds of mental scenarios to ally her three friends/fam
• her child gone=may have been shanghaied into another gam

CHAP 4-WAITING ROOM

• off joins ofgeln to walk by wall
• preist and 2 homosexauls 
• econowives [ats mourning stillborn fetus 'under his eye'
• pass nick and gives groceries t rita
• she goes uopstairs and passes commander outside her room
• recrtaets into memroys and thinks about pre maritial affaior with luke 
• 'suffering attack of the past'
• recalls one say finding pice of latin from her predescrro 'notile de la...'
• summer=she escroted to doctors poffice for medial exmaination
• doctor 'i coild help you'
• she consider this but thinks about penalty 
• she then in bath and avoids gazing at body as 'determines er so compeltley
• rita suopervises her bath and then prep for cermony 

ANALYSIS

• in forerm time=life full of optimsims etc 
• she failed to apprecate womens rights and prvailges like having a job 
• paid scnat attention to omnious political chnages and chnage in social climate=rise in misogyny 
• when given dinner has womanly ufge to keep butter for body cream=small indulgence=lighten her feelings of tedium
• too iient on survivla though to do it with doc
• exmaines tatoo pass umber on ankle and like ww111
• she retains sne of indiaulity duirng cereminy-composes herself in soulles receptable for his sperm

KEY WORDS

'SECT WARS'-interdonminational battles-gileads fundamentalists fight against jews, etc 

'NOTILE TE BASTARDS CARBORDUNDORUM'-botched version of latin meaning 'dont let bastrds…