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#3: The Handmaid's Tale > Modesty is invisibility

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Nov 08, 2015 12:41PM

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"Modesty is invisibility. To be seen is to be penetrated. What you must be is impenetrable."

Why? What is the use of being invisible, impenetrable? What is the significance of this statement from Aunt Lydia?

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