Education

Question 1

All you have to do

Answer 1

All you have to do I tell myself is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. it shouldn’t be that hard

Question 2

The bible is an

Answer 2

Incendiary device … we can be read to from it, by him, but we cannot read

only book mentioned in gilead critique of new right that mixies republicans and Christianity

reduced offred to childlike status

Question 3

Oasis of

Answer 3

It is an oasis of forbidden - books and books and books

syndetic list = overwhelming

Question 4

I’d like you too

Answer 4

I’d like you to play a game of Scrabble with me …It’s as if he’s offered me drugs

juxtaposition between ‘scrabble’ and ‘drugs’ suggest amazement and overwhelming desire

Question 5

pen is

Answer 5

pen is envy

red center motto
freudian penis envy

Question 6

our big mistake was

Answer 6

our big mistake was teaching them to read

commander about women - links to ideas that the only way to be liberated from slavery was to be educated