Handmaids Tale quotes Flashcards
“Something could be exchanged, we thought, some deal made, some trade-off, we still had our bodies”
Chapter 1, pg.4
-Sexuality as power
“Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last”
Chapter 2, pg.7
-Ignorance as a means of survival, Stella
“The colour of blood which defines us”
CH. 2, pg.8
“I hunger to commit the act of touch”
Ch.2 , pg. 11
“As for my husband, she said, he’s just that. My husband.”
Ch. 3, pg.16
-Insecurity
“Yes we are very happy,” I murmur. I have to say something”
Ch.5 pg. 29
-Appearances vs reality
“I can remember screaming, it felt like screaming though it may have only been a whisper”
CH. 7,PG39
-Significance of past events haunting a person
“I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling”
Ch7 pg39
-Storytelling + truth
“I’ll pretend you can hear me”
ch7, pg 40
“the sanctity of the home, about how women should stay at home”
Ch 7, pg 45
“The signals animals give one another: lowered blue eyelids, ears laid back, raised hackles”
CH.8 ,pg 49
-Animal imagery
“Before we were married and I solidified”
CH. 9, PG.50
presentation of marriage/ dependance
“I have them, these attacks of the past
Ch. 9, pg. 52
-PTSD, significance of the past
“We lived as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance. You have to work at it”
Ch. 10, pg.56
Ignorance
“Is that his hand, sliding up my leg”
CH. 11, pg . 60
-Predatory, sexual exploitation
