Moira Flashcards
moira
she escapes to the underground but is captured by the eyes and is tortured
joins Jezebel’s as a result- it breaks her spirit
being a whore
Are Moira’s actions in the “underwhore” party really a promotion of women’s rights or does it feed right into the culture of porn and men’s gratification
Offred’s attitude towards feminism
dropping water-filled bags in college
was this Moira teaching the boys or was he simply flirting?
women’s right
one could fault Offred for being uninvolved in women’s rights, but Moira’s radicalism hardly seems like the solution
small world
Moira’s presence at Jezebel’s seems like a huge coincidence, but maybe Gilead is smaller than it pretends to be…
Offred says
“I’d like to say she blew up Jezebel’s, with fifty commanders inside”
she sees moira as a more powerful force than perhaps she actually is
moira is an
outright rebel, refusing to comply and always asserting herself
however, ends up in Jezebel’s resigned to her fate
Ofglen is another rebel
- a less obvious one than moira and arguably more effective, although she does kill herself
however, by doing so she avoids interrogation and the defeat of capture