What is the biblical meaning of the colors red and blue? I feel like they play some sort of role in The Last Supper fresco, but I can't remember what it is.

As I mentioned in class, the movie Aeon Flux covers some very similar points but deals with the ideas of infertility in a very different way. While The Handmaid's Tale deals mainly with white infertility in a single country, Aeon Flux addresses the idea of global infertility, not blamed on either gender, and the increasingly strict and regulated society that results from that infertility. I feel like it was passed over when it came out, but I think it's pretty relevant to both The Handmaid's Tale and Children of Men.

So, as I was toodling along and reading Handmaid's tale, I realized that I didn't know the protagonist's name, so I wiki-ed it. I found it out, but hadn't yet gotten to the part with the explanation of WHY she was called Offred, so I just figured Atwood had made it up. What I noticed about it was how similar it was to the word 'offered.'

I think the most viscerally affecting passage in HT was at the very end of chapter 28, near the end of the narrator's description of the fundamentalist takeover in the time before. In it, Luke responds to the narrator losing her job and all her rights without really blinking an eye. He still wants to make love, and can't understand why the narrator doesn't want to. He says "We still have..." and she finishes "We still have each other."

The Handmaid's Tale is different from the other two books we've read thus far...