All similar quotes

Question 1

Give a quote from each text that reflects reality and deception.

Answer 1

• THT: ‘when we think of the past, its the beautiful things we pick out’ (page 40)
• THT: ‘she does such things to look good’ (page 41)
• ASND: ‘I don’t tell the truth, i tell what out to be the truth’

Question 2

Analyse ‘she does such things to look good’ (page 41)

Answer 2

Gilead uses fear to control how people behave and therefore it is hard to differentiate between people who are for the regime and those against.

Question 3

Give a quote from each text that reflects male aggression and dominance.

Answer 3

• THT: ‘He was not a monster, to her’

- ASND: ‘A different species’

Question 4

Analyse ‘a different species’.

Answer 4

Stella doesn’t want to believe that Stanley is a monster. Love blinds Stella to the social differences between them. She doesn’t see the compatibility issues that Blanche does.

Question 5

Give a quote from each text that reflects appearance and escape.

Answer 5

• THT: ‘As long as we do this, butter our skin to keep it soft, we can believe that we will some day get out’
• ASND: ‘It isn’t enough to be soft. You’ve got to be soft and attractive’.

Question 6

Give a quote from each text that reflects confinement and social class.

Answer 6

• THT: ‘As if everything were available to us’ (35.22)

- ASND: ‘Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried’

Question 7

Give a quote from each text that reflects solitude and madness.

Answer 7

• THT: ‘My room, then. There has to be some space, finally, that I claim as mine, even in this time.’ (9.1-2)
• ASND: Blanche is always in bathroom BUT she also differs - ‘I can’t be alone’ (1.141)

Question 8

Give a quote from each text that reflects sex and lust.

Answer 8

• THT: ‘I hunger to touch something’

- ASND: ‘Blanche moves back into the streak of light’ (3.88)

Question 9

Give a quote from each text that reflects hope and madness.

Answer 9

• THT: ‘Its the message, which may never arrive, that keeps me alive’
• ASND: ‘I received a telegram from and old admirer or mine’ (scene 10)

Question 10

Give a quote from each text that reflects appearance and deception.

Answer 10

• THT: ‘I wait, I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose’
• ASND: ‘After all, a woman’s charm is 50% illusion’

Question 11

Give a quote from each text that reflects maintaining appearance.

Answer 11

• THT: ‘And if i talk to him I’ll say something wrong…’

- ASND: Blanche lies about taking a ‘leave of absence’ and also her age to Mitch