UNIFORM IN THT

RED

• handmaids
• causes physcial disocmfort
• physcial oppression
• vs taken to jezebls=vibrant multiculored clothing=juxposes with oppression actaully face there
• perveterd inversion of what she remebers as freedom
• 'colour of blood which defines us'
• associated with womb and menstral
• overpowering and virant=oppressive 
• also symbolic of blood=hangings etc 
• asscoates with SHAME-SCRALETT LETTER AND RIDENESS OF FERTILITY 
•  red is also a traditional marker of sexual sin, hearkening back to the scarlet letter worn by the adulterous Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale of Puritan ideology=women who commit sexual acts
• 'VERYTHING EXCEOT MY WINGS RED'
• also symbolic of violnece and death
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