The flow of the novel starts as Woolf finds the opening line of her new novel: "Mrs. Dalloway decided she would buy the flowers herself." The flowers would proof an important metaphor in the book. This thought of buying the flowers herself would link Woolf and Clarissa. Clarissa states the same words to her lover in preparing for Richard's party. And yet the flowers would reappear in Laura Browns life as her husband buys flowers for his own birthday. Flowers that normally represent life and color ironically represent sadness and loneliness in this novel.
The first thing Offred finally works the nerve up to steal is a daffodil from one of Serena Joy's arrangements. Even Jezebel's, where the Commander takes the Offred, is decorated with flowers. Flowers are also used to disguise things that are ugly or terrifying; the narrator compares the bloody mouth of a hanged man, for example, to the red tulips in Serena Joy's garden. Flowers are often considered symbols of beauty or fertility. In The Handmaid's Tale, they're given special attention as objects that can bloom and grow at a time when few women can. From a technical standpoint, flowers are also the part of a plant that holds the reproductive organs. They're constant reminders of the fertility that most women lack. It seems the older Wives are seeking to hang onto their attractiveness and fertility by decorating themselves with flowers and tending gardens: "Many of the Wives have such gardens, it's something for them to order and maintain and care for" (12). Serena Joy takes a bizarre pleasure in mutilating flowers. Perhaps these are attacks Serena Joy would like to make on the Handmaid, who can be seen as a flower living in her
She finds it especially rewarding when she brings the residents a bouquet of flowers, or a plant, with a “Thinking of You” card signed by the managers at Belmont Village, and she gets to see their faces light up with excitement.
The scene in question, scene 13, sets itself to establish a few key relationships between characters and develops the plot, set the tone of the play for the upcoming action as well as reanalyze Ofelia’s reliability as a character. When Ofelia loses her mind, she starts handing out flowers to everyone around her. She talks directly about the symbolic meaning of those flowers, but what is also important is who might be on the receiving end of these flowers.
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Thank you for taking your time to read my zine. I am a senior in 2017 Arts Academy Capstone class. My project is to hand make crepe paper flower bouquet for lung cancer survivors. This booklet is a small part of my project to deliver the experience behind my work.
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