english quotes Flashcards
biblical allusion
“Behold my maid Bilhah. She shall bear upon my knees.”
- rachel and lea
Mantra
“Waste not, want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
Religous language
“We are two-legged wombs, that’s all: sacred vessels…”
- synechdoche
zoomoprhic
“I wait, washed, brushed, fed, like a prize pig.”
false hope
“She’s a flag on a hilltop, showing us… we too can be saved.”
surveillance (commander)
“Under his Eye”
depressing
“They’ve removed anything you could tie a rope to”
Lydia famouse
“Freedom to and Freedom from”
juxtoposition
“so sinful, so free.
tourists
They wear lipstick, red… like scrawls on a washroom wall”.
way of discussion with ofglen
“Amputated speech.”
Serena joy’s view
“I am a reproach to her; and a necessity”
meta 1
“You don’t tell a story only to yourself”
meta 2
“I wish You’d answer. I feel so alone”
meta 3
“If its a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending”
commander
“he’s given no evidence, of softness… to be a man, like that… It must be very silent”
scrabble
“He encourages me to do it too… make words with them that don’t exist, words like smurt and crup, giggling over them”.
offred to the commander
“like an attentive pet, prick-eared and eager to perform”
Serena ceremony
“Serena has begun to cry… She always does this, the night of the Ceremony.”
Serena nothing
“you could have left me something”
meta historical
“This is a reconstruction”
naming system
“Offred” “Ofglen”
Lydia women in 1980s
“They were lazy women. They were sluts…”
historical description of commander
“a man of considerable ingenuity”
