Chapter 10-12

Question 1

It’s easy to dismiss the Gilead regime as dysfunctional but in what ways is Atwood suggesting 1980s’ society was already failing in these chapters

Answer 1

‘Studies had been done’

‘She was crying and saying it was her baby, the lord had given it to her’

By 80s acceptance of abortion

Freedom of clothes

Rise of feminist

Question 2

Chapter 10

How is Offred treated by the doctor

Answer 2

Takes advantage of law - claims men not sterile to have sex w Offred

Calls her ‘honey’ - against feminism

Considers her job ‘give me children or else I die’

Question 3

Chapter 12

What does Offred miss about her previous life

Answer 3

Little tell signs - birth date decreasing

Get back to the past - almost relieves it - misses relationships eg w family

Cope - past, telling story, rebels, making fun of them

Question 4

Chapter 12

Naked

Answer 4

‘Did I really wear bathing suits at the beach?’

Question 5

Baby hers

Answer 5

‘Ghost’ - easier to think of as dead

‘This is the age she is when I’m in the bath’

‘This is how I know she’s not really a ghost’ - can’t give up hope

Question 6

Themes sisterhood

Answer 6

‘I like her for that…she thinks I have some of what we used to call privacy left’