Loss of Identity

Question 1

Loss of identity (Handmaids), quotes

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Answer 1

• “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.

Question 2

Identity (1984) quote

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Answer 2

• “He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear”