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  1. Sep 2024
    1. Moira had power now, she'dbeen set loose, she'd set herself loose. She was now a loose woman

      The word play equates freedom to power, to being a whore, to not restraining oneself from innate desires.

  2. Aug 2024
    1. There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom toand freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you arebeing given freedom from. Don't underrate it

      This is ironic and very important. Freedom to and freedom from -- playing with language, a form of manipulation. Gilead is more than for its birth rate purposes... A form of gaslighting.

      Shows the role of language in perception, in reality, and yet also shows that there is a limit that the mindset can do for you. It is still suffering, without duty.