"Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary." This quotation found in chapter 6 of The Handmaid's Tale describes the way that Offred is feeling from seeing the bodies that have been hung. She appears to be okay and capable of dealing with the situation, but in reality Offred is terrified of what she has just witnessed. The quotation also suggests the remembrance of Aunt Lydia and how she believed that Gilead will someday become normal. Lydia's words are used to symbolize the idea of over looking truly horrifying circumstances and making them seem normal. Within the quotation there is an emphasis in which the town of Gilead prevails by letting the towns folk not think or even acknowledge what a different world would be like. The fact that Lydia expects for their current society to seem ordinary is a hyperbole. Attempting to make such drastic situations accepted as a common/ordinary lifestyle is an extreme.
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