Censorship

If you missed the discussion on the causes and effects of censorship in the society in The Handmaid's Tale, feel free to comment on some of the questions below. You may also wish to support your ideas with quotations from the novel.

1. Why is reading dangerous?
2. Why do the Aunts change all of the women's names?
3. Offred makes a point of saying that she is not writing this down. Why is that important?
4. What words have new meanings or what words were made up by this society? Why and to what effect?
5. Why is the Bible under lock and key in Gilead?

Remember to capture some of your ideas on censorship on the multi-flow map on p. 9 in your notebook.