Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How is the 'horror' of Chapter Six of The Handmaid's
Tale conveyed?
- "hanging from is hooks" -
like meat, dehumanising
- "hoping to save his own skin" -
horrible that people have to
rat out others in order to
save themselves
- "bags" -
dehumanises the
men further as
their faces cannot
be seen
- "one red smile" -
blood and smiles are
not normally
associated, grotesque
image
- "tulips" - repetition
- "turn our backs" - so barbaric, have
lost Christian values
- "doctors and scientists" -
people die in hospitals, savers
of life are being exeuted,
what hope is left?
- "war criminals" - war against
birth, doctors who save lives
are considered criminal
- "must have had a run on them" -
animalistic, like killing herds of animals,
humans almost being hunted
- "evidence from a single woman is no longer
admissible" - women aren't rescpected,
trusted, society has moved backwards in
trying to move forward
- "barbed wire" "broken glass" - not
allowed to leave, no escape, they are
trapped, suggests danger and pain
- "It will become ordinary" -
such a horrible things
shouldn't be ordinary
- "desperate bid for safety" - will do
anything, authoritarian, totalitarian,
does safety even exist now?