Comparisons Of Frankenstein And The Handmaids Tale

Question 1

Escapism

Answer 1

THT: offred thinks about memories which are blurred between reality and fiction
F: victor escapes through dreaming

Question 2

Education

Answer 2

THT: offreds education took her no where
F: creatures eduction form literature doesn’t help his isolation victors education causes his downfall

Question 3

Radicalism

Answer 3

THT:offred has a radical upbringing with her mother being an active feminist- leads to the Gilead society
F:Shelley criticised radicalism- industrial rev, French rev, radical figures who couldn’t see fault in themselves

Question 4

Uncanny

Answer 4

THT: gymnasium, commanders house
F:on his return to Geneva he is not the same anymore

Question 5

Abuse of the female body

Answer 5

THT:Moira beaten in red centre
F:female body destroyed

Question 6

Body as clinical not emotional

Answer 6

THT:healthy white Cotten underwear
F:victor digs up bodies to use for creation

Question 7

Loneliness

Answer 7

THT:I want to be with someone
F:creature also wants this

Neither can due to biological determination
Both have names stripped

Question 8

Outcasts

Answer 8

THT: idea of the unbaby
F:creature

Question 9

Shelly and Atwood

Answer 9

THT: Atwood writes in Gilead 1/4 babies are viable
F: only 1/4 of Shelley’s babies survive

Question 10

Dehumanisation

Answer 10

THT: have to create an it
F:victor wouldn’t call it murder if he killed the creature

Question 11

A made thing

Answer 11

THT: what I must present is a made thing not something born
F: creature is a made thing

Question 12

Original titles

Answer 12

THT:going to call it offred character name but chose handmaids tale
F:Shelley chose character name instead of social issue: modern Prometheus

Question 13

Paranoid

Answer 13

THT: offred paranoid about being watched
F: victor paranoid about location of creature

Question 14

Dreaming

Answer 14

Both offred and Frankenstein dream of people from past

Question 15

Psychological investment

Answer 15

THT:janine thinks it’s her fault about her baby being a “shredder”
F: invested in his creation

Question 16

Fulfilment through love

Answer 16

THT:offred stops actively being part of resistance when she falls in love with Nick
F:creature undergoes peridot to find a mate

Question 17

Creature and offred

Answer 17

Offred is an adult in a child’s body

Creature is a child in an adults body

Question 18

Doppelgänger

Answer 18

THT: handmaids are created to be doppelgängers
F: Walton and victor victor and clerval Elizabeth and Justine

Question 19

Editing

Answer 19

THT: the tapes are put back together by a man
F: victor edits Walton’s letters
Percey Shelley edits Mary’s book