serena joy

Question 1

knits scarves

Answer 1

shows her desire to create and protect

Question 2

speeches on TV

Answer 2

used to give speeches about how women should be staying at home to be housewives

Question 3

plants

Answer 3

she destroys their fertility, making them useless to pass on genes, so they will be more beautiful

Offred and the Tulips are linked through colour- its almost as if she’s attacking Offred

the flowers describe Serena’s role- to be beautiful for her husband, not to bear children

Question 4

hatred for Offred

Answer 4

the regime has caused Offred and Serena to hate each other, rather than hating the system itself

she doesn’t just hate the sexual relationship, but the personal one too- Gilead has transformed such things into criminal and shameful things

Question 5

her rebellion

Answer 5

“a woman who might break the rules” as she’s smoking black market cigarettes