Critical Perspectives Flashcards
What does Jamie Depp say that Atwood uses offred for?
To quite strongly enforce the handmaids limited perspective to the reader
What does Jamie Depp say moira is a representative of and how does she change by the end?
The most dynamic representative of the resistance is shown by the end to have accepted her lot as a prostitute
What does madonne miller say offred wants to imagine the commander as?
Unique, the commander is her gileadean ‘sugar daddy’
How can we sympathise with serena joy aswell as offred?
We can sympathise with offred for the systematic oppression, but we can also sympathise with serena joy in her humiiation.
What does Atwood say about female and male power in gilead?
Some people think that the society in gilead is one where all men hav epower and all women don’t, thats not true
What does Rigney see nick as?
A hero that acquits all men by his act of saving offred, although it may mean his own death
What does madonne miller say about nick and his relations with offred?
He supresses her capacity for independant resistance
