Surveillance
The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes:
● “We walk the street doubled…she is my spy and I am hers”
● “Under his eye”
● “Perhaps he is an Eye”
● “The door doesn’t shut all the way”
Context:
● "During my visits to several countries behind the Iron Curtain, experienced the
wariness, the feeling of being spied on, the oblique ways in which people were
conveying information, and these had an influence on what I was writing"
● Surveillance, in accordance with the official ideology and politics of the Communist
Party was performed by several organisations.
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● Comparison - Thought Police in ‘1984’
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● Alternative interpretation - they are “tagged” instead of tattooed
F451 Quotes:
● “We have records on Clarisse McClellan”
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● The Hound “targets itself, homes itself and cuts its’ victims off”
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● “The police have had him charted for months”
Context:
● 1920s wiretapping from american police
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● The rise of CCTV cameras in Germany 1942
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● Critic Robert Reilly, “The novel is a frightening picture of how the products of
science can destroy persons and human values.”
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● Alternative interpretation, 2018 film, Yuxie appears to constantly be listening
The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes:
● “We walk the street doubled…she is my spy and I am hers”
● “Under his eye”
● “Perhaps he is an Eye”
● “The door doesn’t shut all the way”
Context:
● "During my visits to several countries behind the Iron Curtain, experienced the
wariness, the feeling of being spied on, the oblique ways in which people were
conveying information, and these had an influence on what I was writing"
● Surveillance, in accordance with the official ideology and politics of the Communist
Party was performed by several organisations.
●
● Comparison - Thought Police in ‘1984’
●
● Alternative interpretation - they are “tagged” instead of tattooed
F451 Quotes:
● “We have records on Clarisse McClellan”
●
● The Hound “targets itself, homes itself and cuts its’ victims off”
●
● “The police have had him charted for months”
Context:
● 1920s wiretapping from american police
●
● The rise of CCTV cameras in Germany 1942
●
● Critic Robert Reilly, “The novel is a frightening picture of how the products of
science can destroy persons and human values.”
●
● Alternative interpretation, 2018 film, Yuxie appears to constantly be listening
