Imprisonment Flashcards
HMT - rat
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze”
Frankenstein - ‘shake off my chains’
“For an instant I dared to shake off my chains… but the iron had eaten into my flesh”.
Frankenstein - ‘Justine’
We entered the gloomy prison chamber and beheld Justine … her hands were manacled.”
Frankenstein - ‘prison…nature’
“a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature.”
HMT - ‘isn’t a jail sentence’
“this isn’t a jail sentence; there’s no time here that can be done and finished with.”
HMT - ‘this rope’
“This rope segregates us, marks us off, keeps the others from contamination by us.”
HMT - ‘losing the taste’
“Already we were losing the taste for freedom, already we were finding these walls secure.”
HMT - ‘relative’
“Freedom… is relative”
Frankenstein - ‘archangel’
“Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence I am chained in an eternal hell.”
HMT - Nick
‘I no longer want to leave, escape, cross the border to freedom’
HMT - resign my body (after Ofglen death)
“Dear God … I will do anything you like. … I’ll empty myself. Truly become a chalice… I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely to the use of others… I feel for the first time, their true power’
HMT - Offred can only dream of action in other women
that her mother’s “cockiness, her optimism and energy, her pizzazz, will get her out of this” (39:329). Of Moira she desires “gallantry. . . swash buckling, heroism, single-handed combat. Something I lack”
HMT - trapped in body
‘I sink down into my body as into a swamp… Treacherous ground’.
