II. Shopping Flashcards
1
Q
‘Habits are hard to break’ Chapter 3
A
- Pun meaning dress or a repeated behaviour.
- The Handmaid have to constantly wear the long red dress and carry out the same routine for example- the shopping trips.
2
Q
‘Luke wasn’t a doctor. Isn’t.’ Chapter 6
A
- Offred changes the tense from past to present because she hopes that Luke is still alive.
- There is some relief in the fact that she does not know if her lover died the day she was taken away from him and their daughter.
3
Q
‘I am a reproach to her; and a necessity.’
A
- Shows the lack of self-worth that the Handmaids have.
- Offred is both disliked and vital for change and survival. In this context, Offred is only at Serena Joy’s house because of her fertile body with which she can give Serena Joy a child.
4
Q
‘Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
A
- Offred feels like she is the leftovers being used up to avoid wasting a fertile body like hers.
