handmaids Flashcards

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1
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name a scientific setting?

A

Harvard university

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2
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what is significant about Offreds mother?

A

she is a radical second wave feminism

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3
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how does the text present sacrificial victims?

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janine - women associated with imagery of purity who go through great trauma

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4
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what is Offreds mother attending when Offred has a memory of her? (ch7)

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the pornography burning

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5
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why does Offred say she values the nighttime?

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she has time to her self in order to think and remember her past life - moment of freedom and rebellion

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which group of outsiders do Offred bumb into on the way back from the shop?

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japanese tourists

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what is the significance of the quotation “i would like to believe this is a story i’m telling”

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shows the narrative is constructed and she is an unreliable narrator

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in the historic notes how do we know patriarchal control hasn’t changed?

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male academic telling the narrative, makes a sexist joke about offred

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how does Atwood draw a parallel between nick and luke?

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relationships with both, elicit emotions, imagines 3 scenarios with both

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what is the AO3 link to decree 770 set by the roman government?

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mandatory health checks for women, banned contraception - links to women being used to reproduce only and having health checks

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