Misc Flashcards
How is Offred’s name symbolic?
Shows how she belongs to the commander, also includes her assigned colour
How is the use of ‘Aunt’ symbolic?
Masks brutality of the regime, trying to keep non threatening elements of the “good old days”
What quotes present women as a resource within THT
“we are for breeding purposes”
“two legged wombs
“carries of life”
“we are containers”
“we are a national resource”
How to romanticism link to ideas of individuality Frank
Values individualism and genius, gothic is known as the dark side of romanticism
How is Victor presented as a ‘Romantic hero’?
“I will pioneer a new way”
“penetrate nature”
“pursuit for knowledge”
“infuse a spark of being”
“do you share my madness”`
How is the Creature presented as a ‘Romantic hero’?
“endeavouring to learn their language”
“I learned to distinguish”
“I felt sensations… neither from hunger or cold”
How does the 1st person narrative create unreliability THT?
“I can’t remember exactly”
Piexoto: “malicious invention by our author”
How do flashbacks create a liminal state between past and present THT?
“women having jobs its hard to imagine”
“Good old days”
“ Date rape … so trendy”
How do the historical notes add to the narrative structure of THT?
Offred is trapped until her sections of narrative ends, “step into darkness”
She doesn’t own her own story “transcripted … edited”
