Loss of identity Flashcards
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Loss of Identity- A Handmaid’s Tale
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“If I talk to him I’ll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself”
“At neck level there’s another sheet… it intersects me so the doctor will never see my face. He deals with a torso only”
“My name is Offred, I have another name, which nobody can use as it’s forbidden. I tell myself it doesn’t matter, your name is like a telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong it does matter.
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Identity- 1984
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“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear”
