AO3 Literary

Question 1

‘I have always depended on the kindness of strangers’

Answer 1

Williams’ A Street Car Named Desire

Question 2

Context is all; or is it ripeness?

Answer 2

King Lear, means that one must accept one’s death

Question 3

Mademoiselle…Esquire…Ms…Raymond
Chandler…Hard Times; Venus de
Milo…The Sabine Women (ch29)

Question 4

‘Gilead’ (ch5, various)
‘Lilies of the Field…Milk and Honey…All
Flesh…Daily Bread’ (ch5)
Give me children, or else I die. There’s
more than one meaning to it. (ch8)
Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the
silent. I know they made that up…left
things out too, but there was no way of
checking. (ch15)

Question 5

Genesis (Biblical precedent for
Handmaids as surrogates)
Swift (satire, social commentary,
‘speculative fiction’?, theme of
children
Sufi Proverb – ambiguous; warning
against desperate measures, even in
direst circumstances? Suggesting that
some rules should be self-evident,
even if not officially written down?