all THT Flashcards
Macpherson
“Atwood has always used punctuation in her own unique way, reflects the loose connections between fantasy + reality.”
“Fear of betrayal ad inculcated self surveillance keeps the Handmaids from speaking out”
Peters
“Serena is trapped within the ideologies which she created”
Dvorak
“Readers as both pawns and partners of Atwood’s strategy of control”
“ Offred uses caricature to portray the Aunts, as an act of resistance.”
Atwood
“The more limited and boxed in you are, the more important details become.”
“You cannot determine people’s reactions to your book. If it’s a book with any power, there’s always going to be some form of uproar.”-
Staines
“Only a Canadian, a neighbour as well as an outsider to the US could create such an unsettling vision of the American future.”
Bell
“Women are at the margins and exist mainly as a source of frustration, irritation and temptation.”
Howells
“ Atwood gives us a dissident account by a Handmaid who has been relegated to the margins of political power.”
“Offred’s storytelling helps her to survive the psychological oppression of Gilead.
Stillman
“Offred has no models of resistance against Gilead, at least none that threaten Gilead in any way.”
“Under Gilead’s discipline Offred is rapidly being stripped of what capacity she did have to act.”
Beauvoir
“when a woman loses her reproductive capacity, she loses her primary function and therefore identity.”
Freibert
“Nick serves to release Offred. Through their friendship with Nick she even discovers satisfaction with her life.”
Beran
“Offred’s power is in language.”
Slettedhal
“Offred is not heroic. She is instead a passive everywoman, awaiting rescue.”
Kauffman
“In the Red Centre the Handmaids are taught to control their bodies, to respond mechanically, to think and act as a collective unit.”
Gulick
“Aunts are mouthpieces for the ideas of the patriarchal leaders.”
Weiss
Totalitarian regimes arise because people are too complacent or afraid to resist them
