Gender Flashcards
HMT - Serena Joy
“She doesn’t make speeches anymore. She has become speechless… How furious she must be, now that she’s
been taken at her word”
HMT - lingerie
“slithering down over the step like snakeskin”
Frankenstein - ‘penetrate’
“They penetrate into the recess of Nature and show how she works in her hiding places.”
Frankenstein - ‘clouds’
“The very clouds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal nature bade me weep no more.”
Frankenstein - Men
“Oh! Be men, or be more than men.”
HMT - ‘vessel’
“You must be a worthy vessel”.
HMT - ‘to be a man’
“It must be hell to be a man, like that.
It must be just fine.
It must be hell.
It must be very silent.”
HMT - Value of women
“Precious national resources.”
Frankenstein - Elizabeth in private sphere
‘regretted that she had not the same opportunities of enlarging her experience, and cultivating her understanding.’
Frankenstein - women as pets
‘I loved to tend on her, as I should on a favourite animal.’
Frankenstein - Reads of masculine cruelty
‘Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?’
Frankenstein - Safie’s mother
‘taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect, and an independence of spirit, forbidden to the female followers of Mahomet.’
Frankenstein - destroys and controls female sexuality
‘trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.’
HMT - The Doctor
‘red cloth stretched on a frame, a gold Eye painted on it, with a snake-twined sword upright beneath it, like a sort of handle.’
HMT - Offred and Wife
‘Which of us is it worse for, her or me?
