HMt quotes v2

Question 1

I know why there is no glass, in front of the watercolor picture of blue irises, and why the window opens only partly and why the glass in it is shatter-proof. It isn’t running away they’re afraid of. We wouldn’t get far. It’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

Answer 1

Chapter 2 -

SOCIAL CLASS
IDENTITY
CONFLICT
MORALS
FREEDOM
REBELLION
POWER/CONTROL
ISOLATION

Question 2

This isn’t a story I’m telling.
It is also a story I’m telling, in my head, as I go along.
Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing in any case is forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story to yourself. There’s always someone else.

Answer 2

Chapter 7 - page 49

Palimpsest - superimposed

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE/BELIEF
FREEDOM
REBELLION
POWER/CONTROL
ISOLATION

Question 3

Notile te bastardes carborundorum

Answer 3

Chapter 9 -
Bastardes and carborundorum aren’t latin words - schoolchildren

SOCIAL CLASS
CONFLICT
REBELLION
POWER/CONTROL

Question 4

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not somethin born

Answer 4

Chapter 12

SOCIAL CLASS
SOCIAL STRUCTURES
IDENTITY
ROLES/EXPECTATIONS
POWER/CONTROL

Question 5

My name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden. I tell myself it doesn’t matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter.

Answer 5

Chapter 14 -
SOCIAL CLASS
IDENTITY
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND BELIEF
CONFLICT
MORALS
FREEDOM
GENDER
REBELLION
ROLES/EXPECTATIONS
POWER/CONTROL
ISOLATION

Question 6

Moira had power not, she’d ben set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.
I think we found this frightening.
Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy. Already we were losing the taste for freedom, already we were finding these walls secure. In the upper reaches of the atmosphere you’d come apart, you’d vaporize, there would be no pressure holding you together.

Answer 6

Chapter 22

SOCIAL CLASS
IDENTITY
CONFLICT
MORALS
GENDER
FREEDOm
REBELLION
ROLES/EXPECTATIONS
POWER/CONTROL
ISOLATION

Question 7

This is a reconstruction. All of it is a reconstruction.

Answer 7

Chapter 23

IDENTITY
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES/BELIEF
CONFLICT
FREEDOM
REBELLION
ROLES/EXPECTATIONS
POWER/CONTROL
ISOLATION

Question 8

Falling in love. […] it was the central thing; it was the way you understood yourself; if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. Everyone knew that.

Answer 8

Chapter 35
SOCIAL STRUCTRUES
IDENTITY
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE BELIEF
GENDER
FREEDOM
SEXUALITY
ROLES/EXPECTATIONS
ISOLATION

Question 9

Here is what I’d like to tell. I’d like to tell a story about how Moira escaped, for god this time. Or if I couldn’t tell that, I’d like to say she blew up Jezebel’s, with fifty Commanders inside it. I’d like her to end with something daring and spectacular, some outrage, something that would befit her. But as far as I know that didn’t happen. I don’t know how she ended, or even if she did, because I never saw her again.

Answer 9

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Chapter 38
SOCIAL STRUCTURES
IDENTITY
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND BELIEF
CONFLICT
MORALS
FREEDOM
REBELLION
POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
ROLES/EXPECTATIONS
POWER/CONTROL
ISOLATION

Question 10

The fact is that I no longer want to leave, escape, cross the border to freedom. I want to be here, with Nick, where I can get at him.

Answer 10

SOCIAL STRUCTURES
IDENTITY
CONFLICT
MORALS
GENDER
FREEDOM
REBELLION
SEXUALITY
ROLES/EXPECTATIONS
POWER/CONTROL