Handmaid's: Character

Question 1

Narrative technique

5

Answer 1

• “reconstruct”
• “it didn’t happen that way either”
• “nolite de bastardes carborundum”
• “tempted”
• “oh god. It’s no joke. Oh god oh god. How can I keep on living.”

Question 2

Like/Nick

6

Answer 2

• “night”
• “I pray that at least one hole is quickly, neatly and finally through he skull.”
• “want to think what they’ve done to his body.”
• “I want to reach up, taste his skin. He makes me hungry.”
• “wants like so badly.”
• “Luke, you’d understand. It’s you here in another body.”

Question 3

Daughter

7

Answer 3

• “she”
• “rolling on top to cover her.”
• “I can see her, going away from me, through the trees which are already turning to red and yellow, holding out her arms to me, being carried away.”
• “bitch”
• “can’t let go of this hope”
• “I’ve been obliterated from her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph”
• “better she’d brought me nothing.”

Question 4

The Ceremony

7

Answer 4

• “luxury”
• “he isn’t very good at it”
• “I do not say making love, because this is not what he is doing.”
• “duty”
• “one flesh”
• “the rings of her left hand cut into my fingers. It may or may not be revenge.”
• “I wish he would hurry up.”

Question 5

Relationships

5

Answer 5

• “Moira”
• “sitting on the edge of my bed, cross legged”
• “I still can’t believe it’s her. I touch her arm again. Then I start to cry.”
• “illegal”
• “not like that. Like you mean it.”

Question 6

Salvaging/Patricicution

5

Answer 6

• “years”
• “I’ve began to shiver, hatred fills my mouth like spit”
• “from behind me there’s a sound of retching. This is why we don’t get breakfast.”
• “hand on my heart to show unity with the salvagings.”
• “now I’m beginning to feel again: shock, outrage, nausea.”