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Question 1

CH.2.- Offred (Objectification)

Answer 1

‘Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do i want?’

Question 2

CH.2 page 8- Offred

Answer 2

The circumstances have been reduced; for those of us who still have circumstances

Question 3

CH.2- Control

Answer 3

‘Time here is measured by bell’

Question 4

CH.2. Offred deprivation

Answer 4

‘I hunger to commit the act of touch’ (mixture of human senses/ shows the effect of the society meddling with the mind of their subjects

Question 5

CH.4 Nick with cars

Answer 5

‘This at least hasn’t changed , the way men caress good cars’ ( gain insight to the behaviours of men have remained the same from pre- Gilead to their present society)

Question 6

CH.4. Two handmaids (Offred/Ofglen)

Answer 6

Ofglen- “The war is going well, I hear’. (Very similar to 1984 with the saying ‘WAR IS PEACE’
Offred- ‘Praise be’ ( the change of linguistics, shows the indoctrination at hand

Question 7

CH.5 reflection of past freedom using the example of running and running in the dark even though Offred didn’t

Answer 7

‘Women were not protected then’ (The voice of Gilead ring in her mind, that any remembrance of freedom is counteracted’

Question 8

Ch.5 Aunt Lydia take on freedom

Answer 8

‘There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom from. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it’ (A perspective change of the society instead of the biased view of Offred, evaluate the society)

‘We were a society of too much choice’

Question 9

CH.5 Tourists from Japan

Answer 9

‘Coking their heads to the side like robins’ (simile ‘like robins’=fast, great interest)
‘Feet like delicate instruments of torture’. (Defamiliarise- impact of Gilead has psychologically impacted their past life pre gilead)
‘We are fascinated but also repelled’ (subordinate clause, shows the division of the indoctrinated self and the original self)

Question 10

CH.6 The Wall

Answer 10

‘The heads are the heads of snowmen’ (Child like imagination, which is bleak considering the circumstances. The conflict of being in an adult regime but being treated like a child)
‘This smile of blood is what fixes the attention, finally’ (sinister imagery)