Chapter 43-45 Flashcards
Chapter 43 summary
Salvaging reaches gruesome climax as a man is torn to pieces by group of handmaids as form of public execution
Chapter focuses on violence of women as a public spectacle conducted and incited by Aunt Lydia with a coach whistle
Deuteronomy
Penalty for rape is death
Particucation
Combines the word participation of handmaids and execution of victim
It could be a king of dance, a ballet, caught by flash camera: mid air.
They looked arranged
They look like shoebiz
Gruesome - death (dance)
Showbiz (spectacle
It’s a mistake to hang back in any group like this; it stamps you as lukewarm, lacking in zeal
Prison
You don’t come out innocent or truly yourself
Mob mentality
This doesn’t look like a face but like an unknown vegetable, a mangled bulb or tuner, something that’s grown wrong
Dehumanisation - bareabke
Mangled - deformed
Someonthinf gone wrong by system?
A sigh goes up from us; despite myself I feel my hand clench. It is too much, this violation… I want to tear, gouge, rend
Losing control
Passive for so long
Tend to severe
The women are looking at him with horror; as if he’s a half-dead rat dragging itself across the kitchen floor
Domestic
Wanna kill him
Dehumanising
She pushes him down, sideways, then kicks his head viciously, one, two three times, sharp painful jabs with the foot, well aimed.
Ofglen - smart about it
Offred astounded
Calculated
They have a better view from up there. He has become an it
Cruelty
dehumanisation
He was one of ours. I knocked him out. Put him out of his misery.
Family
Hurt animal
I want to go to bed, make love, Rifht now
I think of the word relish
I could eat a horse
Wants comfort and happiness - change of thought mind
During these chapters, the narrative becomes increasingly fragmented
Consider the following quotations
Too much going on from all sides
How does Offred put herself in danger
What does she discover has happened to ofglen and what happened to ofglen and what effect does this have on her attitude to the regime
Ofglen gone life more difficult
She hung herself
She saw the van coming
Mayday
How does Offreds prayer suggest ofglens prayer affected her
Dear God, I will do anything you like. I’ll give up nick… truly become a chalice
