HT - Themes Flashcards by Lauren Ray

Hope: ‘We yearned

‘We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

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Hope: ‘We still

‘we still had our bodies. That was our fantasy’

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Hope: ‘I tell

“I tell therefore you are”

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Hope: “Why did

“Why did she bother? There’s no way out of here.”

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Hope: ‘Faith

“Faith is only a word, embroidered.”

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Hope: “lets stop

“Let’s stop there. I intend to get out of here. It can’t last forever.”

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Hope: ‘I would

“I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.”

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Identity: ‘My name

‘My name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden’

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Identity: “I tell

‘I tell him my real name, and feel that therefore I am known. I act like a dunce. I should know better. I make of him an idol, a cardboard cut-out.

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Companionship: ‘sinking my

“Sinking my hands into that soft resistant warmth which is so much like flesh’

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Companionship: “I feel

‘I feel like the word shattered. I want to be with someone’.

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Identity: ‘I am

‘I am thirty-three years old. I have brown hair. I stand five seven without shoes. I have trouble remembering what I used to look like. I have viable ovaries. I have one more chance’

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Women: ‘What he

‘What he is fucking is the lower part of my body’

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Women: ‘You wanted

‘You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one. It isn’t what you meant, but it exists. Be thankful for small mercies.’

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Women: ‘You wanted a

‘You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one. It isn’t what you meant, but it exists. Be thankful for small mercies.’

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Women: ‘I don’t want

‘I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.’

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Women: ‘Take back

“TAKE BACK THE NIGHT’

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Women: ‘We still

‘we still had our bodies’

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Freedom: ‘I try not

“I try not to think too much, like other things now, thought must be rationed”

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Freedom: ‘It was freedom

“it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Dont underrate it”

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Freedom: ‘A rat

” a rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze”

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Freedom: ‘Freedom to and

“Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from.Don’t underrate it.”

Gender roles: ‘There is

“There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore”

Gender Roles: ‘We are for

“We are for breeding purposes”

Gender roles: "we are containers

"We are containers...only the inside of our bodies are important"

Gender roles: 'better never means

"better never means better for everyone.. it always means worse for some"

Rebellion: 'I believe in

"I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow"

Rebellion: 'Steal something

"Steal something ... make me feel I have power"

Rebellion: 'I hunger to

" I hunger to commit the act of touch"

Rebellion: 'Why did

"Why did she bother? There's no way out of here."

Surveillance: 'The truth is

"The truth is that she is my spy, as I am hers"

Regime: 'It will

"it will become ordinary"

Regime: 'They force

"They force you to kill within yourself"

Acceptance: 'We still had

"We still had our bodies.That was our fantasy"

Relationships: They were right,

"They were right, it's easier, to think of her as dead. I don't have to hope then"

Relationships: "Nobody dies from

'Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.'

Storytelling: 'I would like to

"I would like to believe that this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.'

Storytelling: "Ill pretend you

"I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't."

Storytelling: 'Night falls.

'Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?'

Confinement: "I have made

"I have made a life for myself, here, of a sort."

Confinement: 'Already we were

'Already we were losing the taste for freedom, already we were finding these walls secure.'

Religion: ''As in a

'As in a nunnery too, there are few mirrors.'

Religion: 'My God

'My God (...) I don't believe for an instant that what's going on out there is what You meant.'

Identity: "we smile

'We smile too, we are one smile'

Identity: 'I keep

'I keep the knowledge of this name like something hidden, some treasure I'll come back to dig up, one day.'

Knowledge: 'Knowing was a

"Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you., Aunt Lydia used to say."

Knowledge: 'Maybe I don't

"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on... The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

Gender roles: 'to be a

'to be a man watched by women. must be entirely strange'

Gender roles: 'the problem wasn't

'the problem wasn't only with women, he says. the main problem was with the men'

Power: 'remember that

'remember that forgiveness too is a power'

Identity: 'the colour

'the colour of blood which defies us'

Love: 'falling in love

'falling in love, we said; i fell for him. we are falling women'

indoctrination: 'blessed be

'blessed be the fruit, may the lord open'