Handmaid’s Tale A-Level Flashcards
10 - the connection between Handmaids
We learned to whisper without sound
19 - the divide Gilead has caused in women
I am a reproach to her; and a necessity.
19 - the value of power
There is push and shove, these days, over such toe holds.
23- Offred mocks the consistency in male behaviour.
This at least hasn’t changed, the way men caress good cars.
26 - Offred describes the guardians
They’re either stupid or older or disabled or very young,
39- Aunt Lydia describes how people will submit over time
This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will.
43 - Offred’s an intelligent queen
The difference between lie and lay.
44- Women aren’t treated well in the 80s either
Parts of women’s bodies, turning to black ash in the air, before my eyes.
45- Offred pretends it is fake to cope
Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance.
51 - Aunt Lydia misquotes the bible
All flesh is weak
52 - Luke and Offred are unequal
Luke thought she was funny. I only pretended to think so.
55 - Offred Kwan’s her own space
I called it mine.
61 - Aunt Lydia slut shames and. Then gets a bit too real…
Such things do not happen to nice women.
Don’t think it’s easy for me either,
62 - Offred ignores
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
67- men are saints, no defects whatsoever.
There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore.
75 - Offred gets bored
But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it for men.
94 - bye bye bible
Who knows what we’d make of it, if we ever got our hands on it?
101-Offred sympathises for SJ
Which of us is it worse for, her or me?
109-sex and love
Nobody dies from lack of sex. Its lack of love we die from.
123-Aunt Lydia has hope for the future
Because they won’t want things they can’t have.
125- Aunt Lydia wants you to agree
But they were Godless, and that can make all the difference, don’t you agree?
131-the eye is blind
But they’ll turn a blind eye. We too need our orgies.
133- Women’s rights gone wrong
You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one.
140-very Truman show vibes
This is a reconstruction. All of it is a reconstruction.
141- forgiveness?
Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it.
151-Nazis
She did not believe he was a monster. He was not a monster, to her.
170- A science experiment
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
191 - women can’t add
Just one and one and one and one
201-oops, i fell
The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
221-God in khaki?
GOD IS A NATIONAL RESOURCE.
243 - Linking to modern day countries and then having us doubt
You can’t tell by looking.
A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
249 - jezebels mirror
You need to know, here, what you look like.
271- Offred is ashamed so she lies to us.
There wasn’t any thunder though, I added that in. To cover up the sounds, which i am ashamed of making.
284 - find a rope
To show my unity with the Salvagers and my consent, and my complicity in the death of this woman.
295 - SJ has feelings??????
You could have left me something.
320 - HadesTown
We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer.
320 - last line:)
Are there any questions?
