Freedom

Question 1

“There is more than one kind of freedom,

Answer 1

said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and Freedom from.”

Question 2

“Now you are being given freedom from.

Answer 2

Don’t underrate it.”

Question 3

AO3 lack of freedom

Answer 3

USSR regimes had severe restrictions of individual liberty and freedom of speech.

Question 4

AO5 Isaiah Berlin 1969 “Two Concepts of Liberty”

Answer 4

“freedom from” is “negative freedom”- freedom from external influences and “positive freedom” os “freedom to”- have the ability to exercise their free will

Question 5

AO5 Bloom on Moira

Answer 5

“Offred’s best friend from college, her confidant, and her hero, unafraid of the consequences of speaking and acting against Gilead”

Question 6

AO2- We see Moira through Offred’s eyes

Answer 6

through flashbacks, she is presented with a free spirited personality

Question 7

“Purple overalls, one dangle earring,

Answer 7

the gold fingernail she wore to be eccentric”

Question 8

POODETGFSWTBE AO2

Answer 8

typical colour imagery purple- wealth and royalty gold- excessive of wealth

Question 9

Moira’s refusal to accept “freedom from” philosophy

Answer 9

Evidenced by her escape attempts, alluding to the exercise of her free will and thus her positive freedom

Question 10

“I try not to think too much

Answer 10

thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last”

Question 11

ITNTTTMTCHYCAIITL AO2

Answer 11

the regime goes so far to trample on the desire to think

Question 12

“it isn’t the running away they’re afraid of… it’s those other escapes

Answer 12

the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge”

Question 13

IITRATAOITOETOYCOYGACE AO2

Answer 13

even taking away freedom to take ones own life as Offred describes the shattered glass. Yet the regimes believe this is a new freedom, to be protected from vices that lead to the declined birth rate

Question 14

“Starring at the magazine, as he dangled it before me like fish bait

Answer 14

I wanted it…They suggested rejuvenation…This is what he was holding, without knowing it”

Question 15

taking advantage of the positive freedoms

Answer 15

that the commander gives her, she exerts her free will

Question 16

indulge in the temporary

Answer 16

suspension of censorship

Question 17

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere

Answer 17

as long as it stays inside the maze”

Question 18

We play two games. Larynx, I spell. Valance. Quince. Zygote.

Answer 18

I hold the glossy counters with their smooth edges, finger the letters. The feeling is voluptuous. This is freedom, an eyeblink of it”

Question 19

WPTGLISVQZIHTGC AO2

Answer 19

She uses the word freedom, as if to say that for an instance she is uncontrolled. In other words, for the moment, she controls language, language does not control her.

Question 20

Feuer AO5 Freedom

Answer 20

“the choice-between happiness without freedom or freedom without happiness-is presented […] by Atwood’s Aunt Lydia, trainer of handmaids and explicator of the regime’s rationale for its oppression”