All 7 Uses
subversion
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The Handmaid's Tale
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- There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.†
Chpt 25subversive = a person who works from within to destroy an established order; or relating to such destructive efforts
- Subversion, sedition, blasphemy, heresy, all rolled into one.†
Chpt 27 *subversion = gradual destruction (of something previously established) -- such as a government, rule, or belief
- Each has a submachine gun slung ready, for whatever dangerous or subversive acts they think we might commit inside.†
Chpt 33subversive = a person who works from within to destroy an established order; or relating to such destructive efforts
- I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.†
Chpt 36subverts = gradually destroys or changes the purpose of something -- such as a government, institution, or rule
- It is Judd who is credited with devising the form, as opposed to the name, of the Particicution ceremony, arguing that it was not only a particularly horrifying and effective way of ridding yourself of subversive elements but that it would also act as a steam valve for the female elements in Gilead.†
Chpt 47subversive = a person who works from within to destroy an established order; or relating to such destructive efforts
- We know, for instance, that he met his end, probably soon after the events our author describes, in one of the earliest purges: he was accused of liberal tendencies, of being in possession of a substantial and unauthorized collection of heretical pictorial and literary materials, and of harboring a subversive.†
Chpt 47
- As for the subversive Waterford was accused of harboring, this could have been "Offred" herself, as her flight would have placed her in this category.†
Chpt 47
Definitions:
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(1)
(subversion) gradual destruction (of something previously established) -- such as a government, rule, or belief
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)