HMT - Quotes Flashcards
‘A return…
‘A return to traditional values’
pg 13
‘Hunger to…
‘Hunger to commit the act of touch’
pg 17
‘Perhaps…
‘Perhaps he is an eye’
pg 24
‘Blessed…
‘Blessed be the fruit’
pg 25
‘I enjoy…
‘I enjoy the power’
pg 28
‘Freedom to…
‘Freedom to and freedom from’
pg 30
‘I used to dress…
‘I used to dress like that. That was freedom’
pg 34
‘The night…
‘The night is mine, my own time’
pg 43
‘Where should…
‘Where should I go?’
pg 43
‘I have them,…
‘I have them, these attacks of the past’
pg 58
‘Time as…
‘Time as white sound’
pg 75
‘Im a refugee…
‘Im a refugee from the past’
pg 235
‘this limping…
‘this limping and mutilated story’
pg 275
‘Faith is only…
‘Faith is only a word, embroidered’
pg 300
‘I’m sorry its in
‘I’m sorry its in fragments’
pg 275
‘Voice of…
‘Voice of a monotone, voice of a doll’
pg
‘Modesty…
‘Modesty is invisibility’
pg
‘if its a story I’m…
‘if its a story I’m telling, than I have control over the ending’
pg
‘You don’t…
‘You don’t tell a story only to yourself’
pg
‘Ordinary said Aunt Lydia…
‘Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary’ (Offred reflects of Aunts words highlighting the totalitarian brain wash turning something traumatic to ‘blankness’)
End of chapter 6
‘I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling…
‘I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off’
(family, reader, story, inner state. Horror of Gilead day by day. Telling story is a rebellion. Story gives her ‘control over the ending’ + hope for the future. Denies Gilead control over inner life)
End chapter 7.
‘I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or…
PAGE 29 CH 13
'I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will . . . Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping' Chapter 13 (before body was extension of her self, now herself no longer matters. Dehumanising)
‘He was not a monster, to her. Probably had some…
‘He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, offkey, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation (Chapter 24)
> Comparing documentary of mistress of Nazi camp solider and commander situation
End of chapter 32?
Commander justifying creation of Gilead. Suggests feminism left men without a purpose in life etc… Sex lost meaning…
