Prose context (AO3) Flashcards
Where are patronymics used in the Handmaid’s Tale?
To name the handmaids e.g Offred and Ofglen
Atwood change could be as fast as lightning…
“Change could be as fast as lightning. “It can’t happen here” could not be depended on: Anything could happen anywhere, given the circumstances”
Paulo Freire
“The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
Atwood totalitarian regimes
“The control of women and babies has been a feature of every repressive regime on the planet”
US response to THT
Written in 1985 and was banned in some American high schools - ironically exacerbated the point that Atwood is trying to convey that governments censor and are not too far away from the ideologies of totalitarian regimes
Mary O’Brian motherhood
“In order to secure biological continuity and political control, historically men have constructed institutions designed to check our autonomy”
Second wave feminism
Routledge companion to Feminism and Post Feminism characterised second wave feminism (1960s and 1970s) as “Drawing on theories of difference, identity and deconstruction in order to interrogate the ways in which a ‘woman’ is catgeorised”
Atwood - speculative fiction
Speculative fiction “They can explore the nature and limits of what it means to be human in graphic ways, by pushing the envelope as far as it will go”
Contrasts between 1818 and 1831 version Frankenstein
In the 1818 addition Elizabeth Lavenza is the niece of Alphonse Shelley changes this in 1831 edition to being a poverty-stricken Orphan and therefore a double of Victor’s mother, Caroline Beaufort
‘The Angel in The House’
At any time, she’s still his wife,Dearly devoted to his arms; She loves with love that cannot tire;”
Faustian pact
Faustian pact - he was a highlight successful man dissatisfied with life - the devil gives him unlimited knowledge in return for his soul
Galvanism - Giovanni Adini experiment
This theory led to a variety of experiments on human corpse most notorious was carried out by Giovanni Adini on the corpse of the murderer Thomas Foster after he was hanged at Newgate. Wires were attached to stimulate galvanic activity and the corpse began to move giving the appearance of re-animation.
Chris Baldwick
Chris Baldwick “The monster’s most convincingly human characteristic is of course his power of speech”
Romantic ideology - Pettet
Pettet “Sorrow and happiness were cherised because they were or felt to be stimulants to an intensified aesthetic experience”
Anne K Mellor
“What Victor truly fears is female sexuality as such. A woman who is free to choose her own life and her own sexual partner”
“Nature pursues Victor with the very electricity “The spark of being” that he has stolen”
