The Handmaid's Tale by SARA BELITZ https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq A collage of photos, favorite quotes, and links relating to The Handmaid's Tale. en-us 2017-10-12 02:44:22 UTC 2025-09-24 19:37:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Red Symbolism sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196267368 "Red symbolizes fertility, the handmaid's main asset, the color suggests the blood of the menstrual cycle and childbirth. Red also represents passion, even though the handmaids are not supposed to be passionate."]]> 2017-10-12 02:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196267368 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196267775 "The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. When the government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a full adult human responsible for her own choices."
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]> 2017-10-12 02:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196267775 Aunt Lydia; Choice sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196268981 "We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice."
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- The Commander]]> 2017-10-12 03:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196271025 Aunt Lydia; Freedom sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196271295 "There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it."]]> 2017-10-12 03:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196271295 Aunt Lydia; Ordinary sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196271941 "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."
-Aunt Lydia]]> 2017-10-12 03:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196271941 Aunt Lydia; Change sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196272300 "You are a transitional generation, said Aunt Lydia. It is hardest for you. We know the sacrifices you are being expected to make. It is hard when men revile in you. For the ones who come after you, it will be easier. They will accept their duties with willing hearts.
She did not say: Because they will have no memories, of any other way.
She said: Because they won't want things they can't have."]]> 2017-10-12 03:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196272300 The Commander; Love sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196273322 "But look at the stats, my dear. Was it really worth it, falling in love? Arranged marriages have always worked out just as well, if not better."
- The Commander]]> 2017-10-12 03:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196273322 Aunt Lydia; Love sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196273615 "Love, said Aunt Lydia with distaste. Don't let me catch you at it. No mooning and June-ing around here, girls. Wagging her finger at us. Love is not the point."
-Aunt Lydia]]> 2017-10-12 03:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196273615 Margaret Atwood; Change sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196276455 "Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it."
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-Offred]]> 2017-10-12 19:01:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196598851 sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196654662 2017-10-12 22:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196654662 sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196654876 2017-10-12 22:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196654876 sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196655075 2017-10-12 22:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196655075 Blue Symbolism sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196656176 "The outfits that the wives wear are more flattering and fitted than those worn by the handmaid's. These outfits are blue, which are extremely contradicting and sarcastic/ironic, since blue is the color of the virgin Mary which represents fertility and pureness, qualities the wives do not posses. Blue also is a royal color, symbolizing the high status of the wives. But it is also seen as a cold color, which represents the attitude of the wives towards the handmaid's."]]> 2017-10-12 23:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196656176 Black Symbolism sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196657066 "In the handmaid's tale the commanders mostly wear elegant, black suits these black suits represent the fear and the authority. It also represents the high position of the commanders in the regime of Gilead, since black represents elegance and high status. It can also represent the evilness of the commanders."]]> 2017-10-12 23:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196657066 Aunt Lydia; Army sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196676566 "Think of it as being in the army, said Aunt Lydia."
-Aunt Lydia]]> 2017-10-13 02:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196676566 Offred; Reconstruction sbelitz20 https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196690357 "This is a reconstruction."
-Offred]]> 2017-10-13 04:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sbelitz20/lsdjq7stpjgq/wish/196690357