THT THEMES

STAYING ALIVE

• handmaid survival very vulnerbale 'give me children or els i die'
• 'i am alive...'-vigorus survival insticnt
• even after cermony still wants to eat
• only toward end considers giving up 'keep alice..in any form'
• STORY TELLING=A SURVIVAL STRATEGY
• determined effort to reist efforts to erase oerosnla ideintiy 
• remid herself who was in 'time beofre'
• mems narrated fragments from past 

SURVIVLA THROUGH LOVE

• emotional love affir with nick 
• her body reists the regime as h pays attention to 'possibiklities of my body'
• however is her survival throgh liuck?-moira inevitablr death colonies,offred mum samefate, commander vuknerable 'security risk'
• 'i dont want to be doll hung n wall'

IDENTITY AND INDIVIDUAL

• 'my bname is offred..i have another name'
• very important to her
• gilead systematic ********* of identity 
• those wh infertle even more subhuman 'unwoman'
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