Dystopia Mind Map

Dystopia

Propaganda is used to control citizens and convince them that this system will benefit them

Aunt Lydia convinces Offred how going through this situation is good for her and how is meant to be a Handmaid. (pg. 94)

All sources of media are banned (pg. 25)

Citizens are forced to revere a certain person/concept

Christianity laws are placed above all individual needs, wants, and desires

Individual thoughts and freedom is oppressed

Uniformity is demanded, with different colour outfits representing social status (pg. 9)

Government has a pure command market economy

All money is controlled on the Compubank (pg. 200)

Individuals are dehumanized

A wall is set up to hang dead bodies of those that broke the law, humiliating them (pg. 36)

Names of women are take (pg. 95)

Women are forced to have a name that represents them are the property of men (pg. 95)

Women are used as objects that reproduce (pg.30)

Sense of hopelessness that nothing will change

Offred fears there is no hope of release from the horror of Gilead (pg. 229)

Members of society are controlled by an elite through fear

Government instilled a sense of fear in its citizens through the use of spies and a secret police

Society is controlled by a religious doctrine (Bible) that is enforced through the use of a theocracy (pg.99)

Violence is prevalent in society

There is a war going on (pg. 93)

Dystopian Protagonist

Helps the reader understand the rejection of identity in a dystopian society (pg. 95)

Also helps reader understand the pain and suffering she is going through. (pg. 223)

Offred feels trapped in the household (pg. 8)