Select Quotes from The Testaments Ch 1/7 by Erika Nieto Wenzell https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx Select one per Shelf:a) Freedom vs. Deprivation b) Masculine vs. Feminine c) Hegemony vs. Subordination d) Life vs. Death en-us 2022-01-12 14:59:52 UTC 2024-12-04 03:47:58 UTC hello@padlet.com Nicole Vivar https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988417201 a) Freedom vs. Deprivation
I’ve become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it formless, shape-shifting. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How can I regain myself? How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?(chapter 6)
-Aunt Lydia realized the amount of power she had but nevertheless she could not exercise it in front of everyone she had to be invisible.

b)Masculine vs. Feminine. 
 

c)Hegemony vs. Subordination
Did I weep? Yes: tears came out of my two visible eyes, my moist weeping human eyes. But I had a third eye, in the middle of my forehead. I could feel it: it was cold, like a stone. It did not weep: it saw. And behind it someone was thinking: I will get you back for this. I don’t care how long it takes or how much shit I have to eat in the meantime, but I will do it.
d)
]]> 2022-01-12 15:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988417201 ilsalazarc https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988428847 d) Life vs Dead 
Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive. Pg 1 Chapter 1
This is simile the character uses to express the way he was feeling .


]]> 2022-01-12 15:09:01 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988428847 Freedom vs Depravation iaramirezv https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988432170  Depravation:  But what did it look like, my soul? I pictured it as just like me, only much smaller: as small as the little girl doll in my dollhouse.  Page 22 E-book   (The dollhouse is basically the handmaid's and where they are living right now.) 

Freedom:   I knew my answer had power: I could make her smile, or not. What could I say but yes and yes? Yes, I was happy. Yes, I was lucky. Anyway it was true.  Page 17 E-Book (The power to have her, and freedom of having power over statements) ]]> 2022-01-12 15:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988432170 Maculinity vs Femininity iaramirezv https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988448347  So men had something in their heads that was like fingers, only a sort of fingers girls did not have. And that explained everything, said Aunt Vidale. Page 19 E-Book (Masculinity is set a something completly different from what woman are and feel, which women don't have). ]]> 2022-01-12 15:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988448347 Hegemony vs Subordination iaramirezv https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988460637  Only boys could taste that freedom; only they could swoop and soar; only they could be airborne.  I have still never been on a swing. It remains one of my wishes.   Page 20 E-book (Hegemony is showned here as one group in this case men are over women in privilages and Subordination is showned in the last sentence where even if she has her dream in front of her, she has to follow the rules).  

]]> 2022-01-12 15:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988460637 Life vs Death iaramirezv https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988468249  Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Page 21 E-Book (What we see here is life praying for their soul if death is to come and that the soul can rest easy, life and death meeting at a prayer). ]]> 2022-01-12 15:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988468249 Emilio Naht eanahtm https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988493385 a)Masculine vs feminine: "I am standing straight, shoulders back, my lips curved into a firm but benevolet smile. My eyes are fixed on some cosmic point of reference understood to represent my idealism, my unflinching commitment to duty, my determination to move forward despite all obstacles" (chapter 1 page 1). This because she is using her ideal to say that she is not less than other just because she is a woman
B)Freedom vs Deprivation: "I agree with you that Gilead ought to fade away-there is too much wrong in it, too much that is false, and too much that is surely contrary to what God intended- but you must permited me some space to mourn the good that will be lost" (Chapter 2 page 9). This quoute was selected because the freedom is presented in the wish of the protagonist of been in her own space and the deprivation in the situation of Gilead.
C)Life vs. Death: "We and your fathers and mothers will choose your husbands wisely for you when the time comes" (Chapter 2 page 10). This because the action of getting married with some one that you don´t want, it will affect the protagonist in all her life until she or her husband dies.
D) Hegemony vs. Subordination: "The pink , the white and the plum dresses were the rule for special girls like us. Ordinary girls from Econofamilies wore the same thing all the time".(Chapter 2 page 11)]]> 2022-01-12 15:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988493385 Valentina Serrano https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988493670 FREEDOM VS DEPRIVATION
Chapter 3. Page 16.
"There were swings in one of the parks, but because of our skirts, which might be blown up by the wind and then looked into,  we were not to think of taking such liberty as a swing. Only boys could taste that freedom; only they could swoop and soar, only they could be airborne".
Explanation: Freedom is presented as a quality and opportunity reserved for the male gender. It has been taken away from women, and they have to learn to live without it.

MASCULINE VS FEMININE
Chapter 3. Page 15.
"What my father was doing in there was said to be very important - the important things that men did, too important for females to meddle with because they had smaller brains that were incapable of thinking large thoughts, according to Aunt Vidala, who taught us Religion".
Explanation: One of the conflicts that rely between the genders is the notion that males have a higher intelligence and rationality than females, which is presented in the novel not as a controversy but a fact that is taught in schools.

Chapter 4. Page 20.
"I always made dough men, I never made dough women, because after they were baked I would eat them, and that made me feel I had a secret power over men".
Explanation: As women in the novel have been taken away from any kind of independence and intellectual work, this character exerts her rebellion and protests using this secret habit of eating "bread men", to feel that small actions can help her regain her power.

HEGEMONY VS SUBORDINATION
Chapter 6. Page 35.
"All that festers is not gold, but it can be profitable in non-monetary ways: knowledge is power, especially discreditable knowledge. I am not the first person to have recognized this, or to have capitalized on it when possible: every intelligence agency in the world has always known it".
Explanation: The power of knowledge is considered "hegemonic", because it can affect entire nations positively or negatively. In the case of Gilead citizens, they have to leave in a subordinate state, as they do not have the knowledge to overthrow the regime.

LIFE VS DEATH
Chapter 4. Page 20.
"I was pleased with this story. It was only later that I pondered it: how could Job have allowed God to fob off a batch of new children on him and expect him to pretend that the dead ones no longer mattered?"
Explanation: In this quote the character attempts to criticize religious thought, and thereby the regime's political foundations. She does so by weighing the impact of life and death on humans, and determining that Divine intervention cannot justify slaughter.


]]> 2022-01-12 15:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988493670 Hidalgo ahidalgom https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988499293 Life vs Death
"Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one
while still alive. Already I am petrified."
(Chapter 1  page 10)
There is a special situation going on that can foreshadow the ending of the main character. This statue maybe means that she is supposed to be dead.


Hegemony vs subordination
"The corrupt and blood-smeared
fingerprints of the past must be wiped away to create a clean space for the
morally pure generation that is surely about to arrive."
(Chapter 1  pag 11)
This quote shows that there is a powerfull group of people that want to reshape society and the rest of society has to comply with their orders.




Masculine vs feminine
"because the urges of men
were terrible things and those urges needed to be curbed"
(Chapter 2 pag 14)
This quote talks about the effect women have on men and the need the regime has to  supress this feeling.


Freedom vs deprevation
“We and your fathers and mothers will choose your husbands wisely for
you when the time comes”
(Chapter 2 pag 15) 
Handmaids have no freedom of choice when it comes to marriage. They are asinged a husband by their superiors.

]]> 2022-01-12 15:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988499293 Luichi lafernandezs https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988499609 a) Freedom vs. Deprivation

“Only boys could taste that freedom; only they could swoop and soar; only they could be airborne.
I have still never been on a swing. It remains one of my wishes.” PDF, Page 20.

It means that there are some advantages for the boys to get some things than the girls.

b) Masculine vs. Feminine
"What my father was doing in there was said to be very important—the
important things that men did, too important for females to meddle with
because they had smaller brains that were incapable of thinking large
thoughts, according to Aunt Vidala" Page 19 PDF


c) Hegemony vs. Subordination
"I’ve become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it—
formless, shape-shifting. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds
of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow." Page 35


d) Life vs. Death
“Among them there was a group of those ,Pearl Girls in their silvery dresses and pearls—with signs saying DEATH TO,BABY STEALERS and GIVE BACK BABY NICOLE. People on our side were throwing eggs at them and cheering when one hit, but the Pearl Girls just kept smiling in their glassy way.” page 53, last paragraph.

They want to avoid death and fight for the life of other people to die inocently. 

]]> 2022-01-12 15:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988499609 Nicolas Zevallos nszevallosd https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988500560 a)Freedom vs. Deprivation:

b)Masculine vs. Feminine:
"So men had something in their heads that was like fingers, only a sort of fingers girls did not have. And that explained everything, said Aunt Vidala, and we will have no more questions about it"(Pag 19, Chapter 3)
c)Hegemony vs. Subordination:
“We and your fathers and mothers will choose your husbands wisely for you when the time comes”. (Pag 15, Chapter 2)
d)Life vs. Death:
"Also, it was not encouraging to pray about dying in your sleep. I did not think I would, but what if I did? And what was my soul like—that thing the angels would carry away?"(Pag 22, Chapter 3)]]> 2022-01-12 15:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988500560 Ana Paula Olaya apolayaf https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988504890 a) Freedom vs Deprivation
"I am standing straight, shoulders back, my lips curved into a firm but benevolent smile. My eyes are fixed on some cosmic point of reference understood representing my idealism, my unflinching commitment to duty, my determination to move forward despite all obstacles."(Chapter 1, page 10)
Slave to the building of a system because she has to in order to continue living.
b) Masculine vs Feminine
"The man eyes that were always roaming here and there like the eyes of tigers, those searchlight eyes, needed to be shielded from the alluring and indeed blinding power of us of our shapely or skinny or fat legs, of our graceful or knobbly or sausage arms, of our peachy or blotchy skins, of our entwining curls of shining hair or our coarse unruly pelts or our straw-like wispy braids, it did not matter"(Chapter 2, page 14)
Here is demonstrating the manner in which women can be weaponized to sexually repress from a young age, particularly by teaching them that they are responsible for the horrible actions and lack of self-control of others.
"What my father was doing in there was said to be very important—the important things that men did, too important for females to meddle with because they had smaller brains that were incapable of thinking large thoughts, according to Aunt Vidala, "(Chapter 3,page 19)
The Aunts’ teaching that only male brains are capable of certain important work suggests that those in power believe men and women’s brains are biologically distinct.
c) Hegemony vs Subordination
"We were custodians of an invaluable treasure that existed, unseen, inside us; we were precious flowers that had to be kept safely inside glass houses, or else we would be ambushed and our petals would be torn off and our treasure would be stolen and we would be ripped apart and trampled by the ravenous "(Chapter 2,page 15)
This quote explains how there is dominance, especially towards women, the narrator primes the reader to wonder just how worthy of honor she really and their ability to only conceive children.
d) Life vs Death
" it was not encouraging to pray about dying in your sleep. I did not think I would, but what if I did? And what was my soul like—that thing the angels would carry away? Tabitha said it was the spirit part and did not die when your body did, which was supposed to be a cheerful idea. 
But what did it look like, my soul? I pictured it as just as me, only much smaller: as small as the little girl doll in my dollhouse. "(Chapter 3,page 22)
Agnes wonders about her soul, which seems to always be under threat if they don't follow rules by the hypocrisy inherent to Gilead’s regime about religion authority.
"“It’s not fair,” I sobbed. “I don’t want to get married! Why do I have to?”  She didn’t say Because it’s your duty, the way Aunt Vidala would have, or You’ll want to when the time comes, which was what Aunt Estée would say. She didn’t say anything at first. Instead she hugged me and stroked my hair.  Remember how I chose you,” she said, “out of all the others.” (Chapter 4, page 26)
Agnes’s social class highlights her lack of choice in all aspects of her life
]]> 2022-01-12 15:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988504890 Violeta Gómez vvgomezg https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988508185 Masculine vs Femenine: Arms covered, hair covered, skirts down to the knew before you were five and no more than two inches above the ancle after that, because the urges of men were terrible things and those urges needed to be curbed

Freedom vs Depravation: I knew my answer had power: I could make her smile or not. What could I say but yes and yes? Yes I was happy. Yes I was lucky. Anyways it was true

Hegemony vs Subordination: They did not even learn petit point embroidery or croche work (...)  they were not pre chosen to mary the very best man (...) not like us, although they might be choosen once they were older if they were prettu enough (econofamilies)

Life vs Death: Four angels standing around my bed, two to feet and two to head, one to watch and one to pray, and two to carry my soul away]]> 2022-01-12 15:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988508185 Ariana Sotomayor amsotomayorf https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988527096 a) Freedom vs Deprivation
" Arms covered, hair covered, skirts down to the knee before you were five and no more than two inches above the ankle after that, because the urges of men were terrible things and those urges needed to be curbed. The man eyes that were always roaming here and there like the eyes of tigers, those searchlight eyes, needed to be shielded from the alluring and indeed blinding power of us " (chapter 2, page 14)
This quote demonstrates how women had to keep themselves from wearing the clothes at the length they want to keep away from being sexualized by men.
b) Masculine vs Femenine
" What my father was doing in there was said to be very important—the important things that men did, too important for females to meddle with because they had smaller brains that were incapable of thinking large thoughts, according to Aunt Vidala, who taught us Religion." (chapter 3, page 19)
This quote shows how as this society is led by men in every way even in religion, their own believes of superiority over women because of their "small brains" is a reality taught to little girls in religion class.
c)Hegemony vs Subordination
" The corrupt and blood-smeared fingerprints of the past must be wiped away to create a clean space for the morally pure generation that is surely about to arrive. Such is the theory. " (chapter 1, page 11)
Those who hold a high status in society want to leave no trace of the past for future generations, this shows how does to come will be subordinates of the history those who lead want to tell, not the reality.
d) Life vs death
"Also, it was not encouraging to pray about dying in your sleep. I did not think I would, but what if I did? And what was my soul like—that thing the angels would carry away? Tabitha said it was the spirit part and did not die when your body did, which was supposed to be a cheerful idea."
When you sleep you are living no matter what happens while doing so inside your mind, praying about dying will  not cause you to actually die. We  see how it is inferred that we don't die completely, our spirit will keep being alive when our soul dies.

]]> 2022-01-12 15:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988527096 Ana Paula Moran apmorans https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988538607 a) Freedom vs. Deprivation:  “Aunt Vidala said that best friends led to whispering and plotting and keeping secrets, and plotting and secrets led to disobedience to God, and disobedience led to rebellion, and girls who were rebellious became women who were rebellious, and a rebellious woman was even worse than a rebellious man because rebellious men became traitors, but rebellious women became adulteresses.” 
(Chapter 5 , Page 24)
Agnes' account of her Vidala School lectures give a complete picture of how Aunts educated wealthy children into proper behavior. The Aunts despise even the most natural and basic things, such as a small girl having a closest friend, since they believe it leads to capital crimes. This shows that not only the Handmaids think that even little deviations from prescribed behavior would result in punishment and disaster. It's also worth noting that adultery is the greatest potential crime of rebellion assigned to women, far worse than treason.
b) Masculine vs. Femine:
I’ve become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it—formless, shape-shifting. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How can I regain myself? How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?(Page36)
Aunt Lydia muses on her complicated relationship with authority in this quotation. She fully understands that she has grown "swollen with power," giving her an intoxicating sense of invincibility. Aunt Lydia, despite her legendary prominence in Gilead, is unable to use her influence openly. In contrast to Gilead's elite males, who have complete control over social and political concerns.


]]> 2022-01-12 15:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1988538607 Freedom vs depravation amramosb https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990532247 "And then what happened" I would ask. "And then I brought you to this beautiful house. Aren't you happy here? You are so cherished, by all of us! Aren't we both lucky that I chose you?" (Chapter 2 pg 12)]]> 2022-01-13 14:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990532247 Maculine vs femenine amramosb https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990532748 Hanging from a belt around my waist is my taser. This weapon reminds me of my failings: had I been more effective, I would. not have needed such an implement. The persuasion of my voice would have been enough. (Chapter 1 pg 4)]]> 2022-01-13 14:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990532748 Miguel Mármol Abad mmarmolabad https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990549908 a)       Freedom vs depravation:
"There were swings in one of the parks, but because of our skirts, which might be blown up by the wind and then looked into, we were not to think of taking such liberty as a swing. Only boys could taste that freedom; only they could swoop and soar, only they could be airborne". In this quote we can see how the society was with certain people, we can see injustice and also inequality.
b)      Masculine vs femenine:
“So men had something in their heads that was like fingers, only a sort of fingers girls did not have. And that explained everything, said Aunt Vidala, and we will have no more questions about it.” (Pg 19 PDF) The fact that men possess objects that women do not is mentioned, thus referring to the fact that they are privileged in society while women are in the shadow of men.
c)       Hegemony vs subordination:
"All that festers is not gold, but it can be profitable in non-monetary ways: knowledge is power, especially discreditable knowledge. I am not the first person to have recognized this, or to have capitalized on it when possible: every intelligence agency in the world has always known it".
d)      Life vs death:
“Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive. Already I am petrified.” (pg 1 PDF). in this quote is to introduce the life of this character, saying that short phrase about life and death, it is understood that her life is very complicated and she has no control of her life itself.
 

]]> 2022-01-13 15:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990549908 Image https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990575513 Why did we choose it:
(Written by Valentina Serrano)
This image shows two sides of Aunt Lydia's life, the first one that we see at the left is her intimate and sensitive side, as she was an ordinary woman who had a career and stable personal life that went down the drain when Gilead imposed its regime. At the right we see her public personality, the fanatic and blind authority that helped construct Gilead and monitored the Handmaid's performance, as well as taught them the regime's norms and foundations. 
In "The Handmaid's Tale", we can only see her public persona and we get to judge her for her insensitive actions and absurd fanatism, but in "The Testaments" we can see how both of her sides intertwine and affect her personal view on the world. ]]> 2022-01-13 15:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990575513 Aunt Lydia apolayaf https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990577043 Atwood’s choice to make Aunt Lydia the one of the protagonist is because we need to understand that in The Handmaid’s Tale, the character seemed fully aligned with Gilead’s oppressive policies against women. On the other hand, in The Testaments  it offers a contrasting view of how Aunt Lydia enjoyed a successful career as a judge and has less to do with a change in her character and more to do with a change in the reader’s perception of her.  Her rise to power is record in a manuscript known as The Ardua Hall Holograph "Over the years I’ve buried a lot of bones; now I’m inclined to dig them up again—if only for your edification, my unknown reader. If you are reading, this manuscript at least will have survived. " (Chapter 1,page 11)

]]> 2022-01-13 15:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990577043 eanahtm https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990581327 2022-01-13 15:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990581327 Image: nszevallosd https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990581450 This image shows the strong aspect of Aunt Lydia, we see that in public she is a strong independent and fanatic woman who have done a lot of things regarding helping the  Gileadean Regime, like brainwashing the woman of the society so they follow the ideology of the regime.
Quote:
“You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.” (Chapter 5)]]> 2022-01-13 15:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990581450 Hegemony vs. Subordination vcandradev https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990582910 "The man eyes that were always roaming here and tehre like the eyes of tigers, those searchlight eyes, needed to be shielded from the alluring and indeed blinding power of us -of our shapely or skinny or fat legs, of our graceful or knobbly or sausage arms, of our peachy or blotchy skins, of our entwining curls of shining hair or our coarse unruly pelts or our straw-like wispy braids, it did not matter." (Chapter 2, pg 9-10)]]> 2022-01-13 15:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990582910 Life vs. Death vcandradev https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990599547 "If you are reading, this manuscript at least will have survived. Though perhaps I´m fanatasizing: perhaps I will never have a reader. Perhaps I´ll only be talking to the wall, in more ways than one." (Chapter 1, pg 5)]]> 2022-01-13 15:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990599547 Image: amramosb https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990603683 2022-01-13 15:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990603683 https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990618060 2022-01-13 15:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990618060 apolayaf https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990624584 Atwood reveals via a secret memoir that Lydia is writing The Testaments, like its literary predecessor, because it shows Gilead’s most powerful woman has hidden an explosive cache of secrets, that she intends to unearth to end the deeply misogynist regime. Aunt Lydia was never sold on Gilead’s values but played along in order to survive.
"Or will I be put on trial as a monster, then executed by firing squad and dangled from a lamppost for public viewing? Will I be torn apart by a mob and have my head stuck on a pole and paraded through the streets to merriment and jeers? I have inspired sufficient rage for that"(Chapter 6, page 34)
We learn from her point of view what it was like to abruptly become a woman, to be tortured into submission, and then to choose to help build the new patriarchal regime by torturing, exploiting, and re-educating other women. 

]]> 2022-01-13 15:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990624584 Aunt Lydia https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990627575 We chose this photo of aunt Lydia because she is representing her authority through the way she is speaking to the audience, with strong ideals. Aunt Lydia is one of the four elite women that founded the Gilead order of Aunts, which is an autonomous order that procedes under strict reculations that controls the life of Gilead women ]]> 2022-01-13 15:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990627575 amsotomayorf https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990636050 2022-01-13 15:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1990636050 cmrojasg https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995931936 "Did I weep? Yes: tears came out of my two visible eyes, my moist weeping human eyes. But I had a third eye, in the middle of my forehead. I could feel it: it was cold, like a stone. It did not weep: it saw. And behind it someone was thinking: I will get you back for this. I don’t care how long it takes or how much shit I have to eat in the meantime, but I will do it."]]> 2022-01-17 14:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995931936 Freedom vs depravation https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995932592 ''But what did it look like, my soul? I pictured it as just like me, only much smaller: as small as the little girl doll in my dollhouse.  Page 22 from the virtual book. In this quote we see how she compare herself with a doll house, with lack of freedom and constant manipulation]]> 2022-01-17 14:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995932592 cmrojasg https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995935080 "I’ve become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it—formless, shape-shifting. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How can I regain myself? How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?"]]> 2022-01-17 14:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995935080 Hegemony vs. Subordination https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995935370 "The pink , the white and the plum dresses were the rule for special girls like us. Ordinary girls from Econofamilies wore the same thing all the time".
They use a dress code , for diferet social media, and she use this to represent the system]]> 2022-01-17 14:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995935370 life vs death https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995938049 ''Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive. Pg 1 Chapter 1.'' In this quote we see the transparent line between the life and death representation]]> 2022-01-17 14:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995938049 https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995938706 Nicole:
"I've become swollen with power,
true, but also nebulous with it
formless, shape-shifting. I am
everywhere and nowhere: even in
the minds of the Commanders I
cast an unsettling shadow. How
can I regain myself? How to shrink
back to my normal size, the size of
an ordinary woman?" (chapter 6)]]> 2022-01-17 14:03:33 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995938706 masculine vs feminine https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995939262 "I’ve become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it—formless, shape-shifting. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How can I regain myself? How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?"]]> 2022-01-17 14:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995939262 apolayaf https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995941425 Lydia is characterized as the most subversively powerful character in the story, the effective puppet-master in Gilead’s downfall. "How will I end? I wondered. Will I live to a gently neglected old age, ossifying by degrees? Will I become my own honoured statue? Or will the regime and I both topple and my stone replica along with me, "(Chapter 6,page 34). Her narration and characterization in this story offer Lydia’s character redemption. Lydia’s brief remembrance of her past life again suggests that, despite the status she has achieved, she is still only a human being.]]> 2022-01-17 14:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995941425 cmrojasg https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995941494 As an overachieving “smarty-pants girl” who had grown up in a family that rejected education, she had developed grit and perseverance. She would have to put both to use again.]]> 2022-01-17 14:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995941494 cmrojasg https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995942808 2022-01-17 14:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995942808 https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995944604 Nicole:
"I’ve learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth."]]> 2022-01-17 14:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995944604 https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995945931 2022-01-17 14:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995945931 Sole msayorad https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995948429 ''Did I weep? Yes: tears came out of my two visible eyes, my moist weeping human eyes. But I had a third eye, in the middle of my forehead. I could feel it: it was cold, like a stone. It did not weep: it saw. And behind it someone was thinking: I will get you back for this. I don’t care how long it takes or how much shit I have to eat in the meantime, but I will do it.'']]> 2022-01-17 14:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995948429 Sole msayorad https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995951015 ''What does Aunt Lydia say?
“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”''
]]> 2022-01-17 14:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995951015 iaramirezv https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995952467 Aunt Lydia deals with a epifany because of she is dying, but still will not show this to others. Lydia also suspects that people in this chapter know her history already thus she talks about herself as a legend. We see lydia celebrating easter, allowing Auts to dye the eggs they'll eat for supper. She holds a bunch of informatioin as she has a trove of dangerous information on people through Gilead. She quotes "Knowledge is power" in a catholic text. She would keep a manuscript that if discovered could cause her execusion. Her writing attempts to justify her life and what she's done. ]]> 2022-01-17 14:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995952467 lafernandezs https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995955789 Aunt Lydia was originally introduced in her earlier novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, in which the character seemed fully aligned with Gilead’s oppressive policies against women. The Testaments offer a contrasting view. After the transition of power, she became one of four elite women charged by Commander Judd with founding the Aunts, an autonomous order that was to preside over the laws and regulations governing Gilead’s women. ]]> 2022-01-17 14:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995955789 https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995957637 Nicole:
“It was best not to speak unless they asked you a direct question. Try to think of it from their point of view she said, her hands clasped and wrung together, her nervous pleading smile. It isn’t easy for them.”]]> 2022-01-17 14:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995957637 https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995963973

Nicole:
"I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.
Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a
story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the
story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off."]]> 2022-01-17 14:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995963973 Quote lafernandezs https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995973301 "I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds
of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How can I regain myself?
How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?" page 35 PDF]]> 2022-01-17 14:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1995973301 Quote https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1996001072 "I agree with you that Gilead ought to fade away-there is too much wrong in it, too much that is false, and too much that is surely contrary to what God intended- but you must permited me some space to mourn the good that will be lost"]]> 2022-01-17 14:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1996001072 quote mmarmolabad https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1996004337 Did I weep? Yes: tears came out of my two visible eyes, my moist weeping human eyes. But I had a third eye, in the middle of my forehead. I could feel it: it was cold, like a stone. It did not weep: it saw. And behind it someone was thinking: I will get you back for this. I don’t care how long it takes or how much shit I have to eat in the meantime, but I will do it.




]]> 2022-01-17 14:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1996004337 The Testaments mdtorot https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1996032384 Ma. del Cisne:
She is concern that her identity will lead her audience to judge her based solely on her reputation. She knows her reputation is a formidable and not altogether positive one. Also she has achieved a legendary status in Gilead, at once “a model of moral perfection to be emulated” and “a bugaloo used by the Marthas to frighten small children.” But Aunt Lydia also know that anyone looking from outside will most likely see her as a puppet of the patriarchal regime. 

Quote: ¨I’ve become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it—formless, shape-shifting. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How can I regain myself? How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?¨]]> 2022-01-17 14:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/1996032384 Quote : ilsalazarc https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/2000654754 “The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.”]]> 2022-01-19 15:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/2000654754 Masculine vs Feminine gsfuentesl https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/2000661938 Quote:

“I’ve become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it—formless, shape-shifting. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How can I regain myself? How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?”

This quote captures how Aunt Lydia feels about her femininity and how society perceives her. She states that she shows herself as a power figure even to other commanders and because of this they respect her. However, she has lost her feminine side or, as she puts it, "size of an ordinary woman." We can also appreciate what she thinks about women. By saying "a normal size of a Woman" we can infer that she thinks that normal women are seen as something more fragile and with a submissive position in society and in this case aunt Lydia is the opposite.





]]> 2022-01-19 15:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/2000661938 apmorans https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/2000727508 "I’m a bugaboo used by the Marthas to frighten small children —If you don’t behave yourself, Aunt Lydia will come and get you! I’m also a model of moral perfection to be emulated—What would Aunt Lydia want you to do?—and a judge and arbiter in the misty inquisition of the imagination—What would Aunt Lydia have to say about that? " Creatin at atmosphere of reflexetion asking what aunt Lydia pov would be and do with this situation.]]> 2022-01-19 15:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/2000727508 https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/2003045062 I've become swollen with power, true,
but also nebulous with it formless,
shape-shifting. I am everywhere and
nowhere: even in the minds of the
Commanders I cast an unsettling
shadow. How can I regain myself?
How to shrink back to my normal
size, the size of an ordinary woman?
(chapter 6)]]> 2022-01-20 14:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/6nlw8zwbgfscy1bx/wish/2003045062