Category: Book Reviews
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Rita asks Offred to get these for her by exchanging coupons Rita hands over coupons to Offred (June), for her to exchange for food items like cheese, eggs and one […]
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June & the Commander play Scrabble secretly in his study They keep the Scrabble sessions a secret from his wife, Serena Joy. This is the word game called Scrabble. This […]
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June, the lead female character in The Handmaid’s Tale, uses a bathroom which has wallpaper with blue forget-me-not flowers. The author, Margaret Atwood, builds up tension and momentum by slowly […]
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Aunt Lydia looks at tulips in The Handmaid’s Tale. (Atwood, p. 52) Perhaps she’s partial to tulips. To read more about the Puritan society for women in The Handmaid’s Tale, […]
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June’s blue irises, written in The Handmaid’s Tale, is a picture frame suspended on the wall of her room. (Atwood, p. 13) This link connects to Van Gogh’s painting of […]
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Atwood’s office clothes: When Margaret Atwood was working in a product research company, she wore a blouse and skirt, help up by a garter belt. She covered her legs with […]
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Cora, also spelled Kora, Korra or Kore, is an honorable name. It means good, virtuous, honest and fair. Some. companies choose to use a feminine name, like Cora, to induce […]
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The Handmaid’s Tale is fiction After The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, Margaret Atwood was asked by a man in the audience of a book event, whether this novel […]