The Handmaid's Tale Lady Justice Quotes

Another important symbols in the story is the statue also known as ‘Lady Justice’. As V have a conversation with her (Book 1, Chapter 1, page 39-41). The strange thing about the conversation he is both talking in third person, as well talking as the statue. While talking to the statue he talks to it on how he have admired her, and saying that ‘I loved you as a person as, as an ideal’. Additionally on how he said that he has a mistress ‘ Her name is Anarchy and she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did!’.This particular scene symbolizes V’s morality and how it shifted. Furthermore, looking at it in a psychoanalytic point of view it shows V’s superego, id and ego. V’s superego being his morality which he said ‘That justice is meaningless