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Chapter 1 - Their conditions and no need for the school any more ✔️✔️"We slept in what had once
been the gymnasium"
Chapter 1 - Remembers wanting something different that they can't have any more ✔️✔️"I remember
that yearning , for something that was always about to happen and was never the same as the hands
that were on us there and then..."
Chapter 1 - they want/need the future their only hope that it will be different ✔️✔️"We yearned for
the future"
Chapter 1 - Nothing will ever be enough for them and they've become good at having that emotion
✔️✔️"How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"
Chapter 1 - Set up like in a prison and that they're doing it for the country that's the vibe with the army
second handed goods ✔️✔️"...we tried to sleep, in the army cots that had been set up in rows, with
spaces between so we could not talk"
Chapter 1 - The fact that they patrol like officers demonstrating the authority which is accentuated with
the cattle prods ✔️✔️"Aunt Sara and Aunt Elizabeth patrolled; they had electric cattle prods slung on
thongs from their leather belts."
Chapter 1 - Showing that there are still boundaries to offer some form of protection for them
✔️✔️"No guns though, even they could not be trusted with guns."
Chapter 1 - Showing there is a hierarchy in the society with the most responsible ones being the
"Angles" ✔️✔️"Guns were for the guards, specially picked from the Angels."
Chapter 1 - Treated like dogs, lesser than the rest of the society ✔️✔️"we weren't allowed out , except
for our walks, twice daily, two by two around the football field which was enclosed now by a chain-link
fence topped with barbed wire."
,Chapter 1 - They are intimidating for a reason a juxtaposition of what Angles should be ✔️✔️"The
Angels stood outside it with their backs to us. They were objects of fear to us..."
Chapter 1 - The extent of their ability to still have communication ✔️✔️"We learned to whisper almost
without sound."
Chapter 1 - Yearning for human contact and comfort ✔️✔️"In the semi-darkness we could stretch out
our arms... and touch each other's hands across space."
Chapter 2 - Showing that those before her must've taken drastic measures to end their suffering
✔️✔️"They've removed anything you could tie a rope to."
Chapter 2 - Worried that they could lose more of them and never have children ✔️✔️"When the
window is partly open - it only opens partly"
Chapter 2 - An insight in to the minds and the running of society in this time. Mentioning "they" but
don't know who "they" are ✔️✔️"This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women,
in their spare time, from things that have have no further use. A return to traditional values."
Chapter 2 - Displaying that she has a purpose and "they" are making her serve that purpose
✔️✔️"Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?"
Chapter 2 - If she thinks too much she will run out of things to think about ✔️✔️"I try to not think too
much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed."
Chapter 2 - Overthinking your situation could cause you to become distressed and ruin your chance of
survival. "Thought-crime 1984" ✔️✔️"Thinking can hurt you chances, and I intend to last."
Chapter 2 - They're worried about the self destruction that they are capable of given the correct tools.
✔️✔️"It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones
you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge."
,Chapter 2 - They are worse off than they were in the "time before" ✔️✔️"...ladies in reduced
circumstances. That is what we are now."
Chapter 2 - Some people don't even have a circumstance to be in they are complete outcasts
✔️✔️"The circumstances have been reduced; for those of us who who still have circumstances."
Chapter 2 - She is still alive but is lost in herself she puts her hand in to something that provides the
ability for life ✔️✔️"I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight."
Chapter 2 - They could be somewhere worse being held captive in another person's house is seen as
being a privilege but is it? ✔️✔️"Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who
was in love with either/or."
Chapter 2 - No clocks anymore but bells ✔️✔️"The bell that measures time is ringing."
Chapter 2 - The colour red is eye-catching and in this case sued to display fertility ✔️✔️"Everything
except the wings around my face is red: the colour of blood, which defines us."
Chapter 2 - They aren't allowed to see other people or make eye contact because they could pass on
information to outsiders and they could risk making friendships ✔️✔️"The white wings too are
prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing, but also from being seen."
Chapter 2 - Displaying that she isn't part of the family and doesn't have the status to make herself at
home ✔️✔️"A sitting room in which I never sit, but stand or kneel only."
Chapter 2 - They fact that there are different umbrellas shows the extent to which the society has gone
to demonstrate the difference in status' in society ✔️✔️"There are several umbrellas in it: black, for
the Commander, blue, for the Commander's Wife, and the one assigned to me, which is red"
Chapter 2 - A surgeons gown "in the time before" would signify their importance due to the job they are
doing and would be called scrubs which means that they are worn to get dirty ✔️✔️"She's in her usual
Martha's dress, which is dull green, like a surgeon's gown of the time before."
, Chapter 2 - Lower status in comparison to her ✔️✔️"She puts the veil on to go outside, but nobody
much cares who sees the face of a Martha."
Chapter 2 - The red dress displays their status and they may be seen as higher status than the Marthas
or they hate to see the fact that they are fertile and they aren't ✔️✔️"Her face might be kindly if she
would smile. But the frown isn't personal: it's the red dress she disapproves of, and what it stands for."
Chapter 2 - What she is doing is being televised to the community that she is doing it for the greater
good. It is mentally taxing not as much physically. Assuming. But it could be argued that what the
Marthas are doing isn't half as hard as them. ✔️✔️"Anyways, they're doing it for us all, said Cora, or so
they say. If I hadn't of got my tubes tied, it could of been me, say I was ten years younger. It's not that
bad. It's not what you'd call hard work."
Chapter 2 - links to 1984 victory - only party members have real coffee and chocolate and alcohol due to
their status same thing with the Commanders ✔️✔️"... in the houses of the Commanders there is still
real coffee"
Chapter 2 - being deprived of trivial conversations due to their difference in status can't even talk to
people on the outside or other Handmaids ✔️✔️"How I used to despise such talk. Now I long for it. At
least it was talk. An exchange, of sorts."
Chapter 2 - They are gossips and get more information on other houses than the news that is actually
spread to the people. Assuming. Like 1984 no one knows what is actually happening ✔️✔️"The
Marthas know things, they talk among themselves, passing the unofficial news from house to house."
Chapter 2 - Speaking as if forbidden to touch something other than cloth or wood which is found
throughout the house. Not allowed to touch anything in the kitchen ✔️✔️"I hunger to touch
something, other than cloth or wood. I hunger to commit the act of touch."
Chapter 2 - Not allowed to form any connections with anyone else due to fear of the downfall of society.
No family connections allowed the same in 1984 - only comrades no friendships ✔️✔️"The Marthas
are not supposed to fraternize with us. Fraternize means to behave like a brother."
