Character page no. Flashcards
Commander - 193
“In fact he is positively daddyish” - dichotomous relationship with Offred
Serena Joy - 161
“Subversive garden” - self expression when in garden
Serena Joy - 25
“I want to see little of you as possible” - how difficult Serena Joy is during Ceremonies
Serena - 26
“As for my husband… he’s just that {…} Till death do you part. It’s final” - possessive of commander
Serena - 299
“Behind my back, she says, you could have left me something” - Serenas loss of marital betrayal
Offred - pg 146
“Two legged women” - individuality erased
Offred - 94
“I keep the knowledge of this name like something hidden, some treasure I’ll come back to dig” - keep name hidden
Offred - 161
“There is something subversive about this garden of Serena, as sense of buried things bursting upwards” - observation of garden reveal her resistance to regime
Moria - 254
Government issue - Link to bunny costume
Aunts - 171
“Helping one another in their daily chores as they walk the path of life together” - Aunt Lydia’s role within the regime of what women will be
Nick - 283
“The fact I that I no longer want to leave” - dominated by nick her lover
Luke - 239
“Stopped dead in time, in mid-air, among the trees back there, in the act of falling” - figure whose life story stopped for Offred
Luke - 115
“I can’t bear to imagine him” - possibilities of Luke’s fate
Luke - 116
“It’s in this message, which may never arrive,that keeps me alive. I believe in the message” - commenting on his afterlife as a result of Offreds anxieties about what has happened to him
Ofglen - 176
“It’s a beautiful May Day” “Praise be” - Ofglen reveals her resistance code word
