at several pt.s in novel ,
offred comments upon the
garden,
she explains is the 'domain of the Commander's Wife .
T
:, garden serves as a
symbol
of repr .
+ rebellion -+
perhaps > In that garden ,
Serena Joy tends to various flowers,
implies that regime is like a
gardener -
&
like
daffodils + tulips.
attempting to subdue natural impulses
that will ultimately refuse to be dominated
Garden
.
suppressed
-
She notes that for the Wives ,
like Serena Joy, a
garden is
smig .
to 'order and maintain and care
for
Serena
Offred also notes that in
Joy's garden ,
there's a sense of [
burned things bursting upwards' suggesting ,
that new
life +
growth cannot be controlled
W
entirely , that nature has a
purpose
+ intention Yet ,
while that garden must ostensibly serve as smig
.
of its .
own that the Wives can nurture +
control-perhaps in place of
the children so
many of them don't seem to have.
, 2 images of fertility + violence -
seem to come
together often mentioned in the novel , usually
in the image of the tulips : stems are a 'darker crimson' in relation to the Handmaids
7
+
look as
if they have been cut' -
perhaps telling that when
,
I
flowers prod Seed pods
. , Serena Joy cuts them
off preventing
,
flower from fulfilling its repr .
purpose
Offred describes ,
almost her entire outfit' except from
the
wings around
my face is red : the colour of blood ,
defines us' in this regard symbolic of
The colour
which -
,
colour
7
At other times red's linked to
danger L her
fertility + would appear to indicate their
function
red
,
+
violence , such as the red smile of blood' as Handmaids : to give birth 3 which
itself =
bloody
on the hanged man. process + is linked to associated
w . the menstrual cycle.
L ~
Red perhaps highlights ambiguous sinfulness of the Handmaids' also seems to be a mark of shame in the novel
function in a Puritan
theocracy like . Rita's disapproval
Gilead
= ~
historically associated W .
sexual desire +, by
mirrored Wives who call the Handmaids' (little whores'
by , extension , women who commit sexual sins ,
offred
which reflects association of red w .
women living in sexual sin
. alludes to this when she explains that Rita's frown
isn't personal :
it's the red dress she disapproves of and what it stands for '
offred comments upon the
garden,
she explains is the 'domain of the Commander's Wife .
T
:, garden serves as a
symbol
of repr .
+ rebellion -+
perhaps > In that garden ,
Serena Joy tends to various flowers,
implies that regime is like a
gardener -
&
like
daffodils + tulips.
attempting to subdue natural impulses
that will ultimately refuse to be dominated
Garden
.
suppressed
-
She notes that for the Wives ,
like Serena Joy, a
garden is
smig .
to 'order and maintain and care
for
Serena
Offred also notes that in
Joy's garden ,
there's a sense of [
burned things bursting upwards' suggesting ,
that new
life +
growth cannot be controlled
W
entirely , that nature has a
purpose
+ intention Yet ,
while that garden must ostensibly serve as smig
.
of its .
own that the Wives can nurture +
control-perhaps in place of
the children so
many of them don't seem to have.
, 2 images of fertility + violence -
seem to come
together often mentioned in the novel , usually
in the image of the tulips : stems are a 'darker crimson' in relation to the Handmaids
7
+
look as
if they have been cut' -
perhaps telling that when
,
I
flowers prod Seed pods
. , Serena Joy cuts them
off preventing
,
flower from fulfilling its repr .
purpose
Offred describes ,
almost her entire outfit' except from
the
wings around
my face is red : the colour of blood ,
defines us' in this regard symbolic of
The colour
which -
,
colour
7
At other times red's linked to
danger L her
fertility + would appear to indicate their
function
red
,
+
violence , such as the red smile of blood' as Handmaids : to give birth 3 which
itself =
bloody
on the hanged man. process + is linked to associated
w . the menstrual cycle.
L ~
Red perhaps highlights ambiguous sinfulness of the Handmaids' also seems to be a mark of shame in the novel
function in a Puritan
theocracy like . Rita's disapproval
Gilead
= ~
historically associated W .
sexual desire +, by
mirrored Wives who call the Handmaids' (little whores'
by , extension , women who commit sexual sins ,
offred
which reflects association of red w .
women living in sexual sin
. alludes to this when she explains that Rita's frown
isn't personal :
it's the red dress she disapproves of and what it stands for '
