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Addie Westbrook

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-Alex Justman

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Mia Eames

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Complacency only makes problems worse.

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Surviving without a heart isn't living

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Positive Memories can create happiness, even in hard times

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Without identity, there is no freedom

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Power often abuses morality, faith, and language to maintain control.

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Controlling language allows those power to dominate reality.

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Control gives people power.

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rebellion is the cure for injustice.

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Complacency breeds issues.

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Desire for freedom can only be granted by Individuality.

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Power is derived from control of language.

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Andrea Ramirez-Cortes

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Lily Woodside

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Hierarchy is used to maintain and control the population.

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Control is a tool of oppression and a resource for resistance.

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The opportunity to establish liberation is exceedingly motivating

(Mia Eames)

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"Our happiness is part memory. What I remember is Luke, with me in the hospital, standing beside my head, holding my hand..."(126).

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Power is gained by conforming the people - Bella

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Power is gained by conforming the people - Bella

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"There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction" (174).

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Power struggles causes many problems -Lily

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Humanity is in the memories that are held.-summer

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“We are for breeding purposes: we aren't concubines, geisha girls, courtesans…We are twp-legged wombs, that’s all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices” (Atwood 136).

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Believing gives strength in yourself

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Offred states, ''He was demonstrating power over me'' (148). shes says this in relation to how even when they are sharing a forbidden game together alone, he still will always be able to control her.

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"When they decided that even the names of shops were too much temptation for us"(25).

"Her name is Ofglen, and that's about all I know about her" (19).

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"'Blessed be the fruit," she says to me, the accepted greeting among us. "May the Lord open," I answer, the accepted response" (Atwood 19).

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Losing identity in hard times proves difficult to survive

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"It makes the men like dolls on which the faces have not been painted; like scarecrows, which in a way is what they are, since they are meant to scare" (32).

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"I cannot avoid seeing, now, the small tattoo on my ankle. Four digits and an eye, a passport in reverse. It's supposed to guarantee that I will never be able to fade, finally, into another landscape. I am too important, too scarce, for that. I am a national resource" (Atwood 65).

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"At her side stands the Birthing Stool, with it's double seat, the back one raised like a throne behind the other" (p. 117).

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"I went back to Nick. Time after time, on my own, without Serena knowing. I wasn't called for, there was no excuse. I did not do it for him, but for myself entirely. I didn't even think of it as giving myself to him, because what did I have to give? I did not feel munificent, but thankful, each time he would let me in." "In order to do this I became reckless, I took stupid chances" (268).

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"The tension between her lack of control and her attempt to suppress it is horrible" (Atwood 90).

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"We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important" (Atwood 96).

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Rebellion empowers those who lack power and resents those who hold it.

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-Lou W

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"I could become an Unwoman. But to refuse to see him could be worse. There's no doubt about who holds the real power" (136).

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"Time’s a trap, I’m caught in it. I must forget about my secret name and all ways back. My name is Offred now, and here is where I live" (153).

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"I went back to Nick. Time after time, on my own, without Serena knowing" (Atwood 268).

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Conformity is used to try and stop rebellion.

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"I can remember what I wore, each blouse, each scarf."(51)

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Humanity's capability to adapt can lead to damaging complacency -Lou W

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"My presence here is illegal. It's forbidden for us to be alone with the commanders" (p. 136)

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"But whose fault was it? Aunt Helena says, holding up one plump finger. Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison. Who led them on? Aunt Helena beams, pleased with us. She did. She did. She did. Why did God allow such a terrible thing to happen? Teach her a lesson. Teach her a lesson. Teach her a lesson" (Atwood 72).

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"Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations." (271)

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Hierarchy is a system of power over the powerless.

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"I am like a child here, there are some things I must not be told" (53).

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Dehumanization creates a sense of insecurity throughout society.

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"I take the tokens from Rita's outstretched hand. They have pictures on them, of things that they can be exchanged for…” (p. 11).

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"I have another name, which nobody uses now because it is forbbiden... I keep the knowlege of this name like something hidden, some treasure i'd come back to dig up,one day. This name has an aura around it, like an amulet, some charm that's survived from an unimaginably distant past"(84).