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Quotes for themes HT Flashcards

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Hope: ‘We yearned

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‘We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

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Hope: ‘We still

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‘we still had our bodies. That was our fantasy’

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Hope: ‘I tell

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“I tell therefore you are”

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Hope: “Why did

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“Why did she bother? There’s no way out of here.”

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Hope: ‘Faith

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“Faith is only a word, embroidered.”

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Hope: “lets stop

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“Let’s stop there. I intend to get out of here. It can’t last forever.”

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Hope: ‘I would

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“I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.”

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Identity: ‘My name

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‘My name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden’

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Identity: “I tell

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‘I tell him my real name, and feel that therefore I am known. I act like a dunce. I should know better. I make of him an idol, a cardboard cut-out.

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Companionship: ‘sinking my

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“Sinking my hands into that soft resistant warmth which is so much like flesh’

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Companionship: “I feel

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‘I feel like the word shattered. I want to be with someone’.

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Identity: ‘I am

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‘I am thirty-three years old. I have brown hair. I stand five seven without shoes. I have trouble remembering what I used to look like. I have viable ovaries. I have one more chance’

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Women: ‘What he

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‘What he is fucking is the lower part of my body’

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Women: ‘You wanted

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‘You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one. It isn’t what you meant, but it exists. Be thankful for small mercies.’

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Women: ‘You wanted a

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‘You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one. It isn’t what you meant, but it exists. Be thankful for small mercies.’

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Women: ‘I don’t want

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‘I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.’

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Women: ‘Take back

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“TAKE BACK THE NIGHT’

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Women: ‘We still

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‘we still had our bodies’

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Freedom: ‘I try not

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“I try not to think too much, like other things now, thought must be rationed”

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Freedom: ‘It was freedom

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“it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Dont underrate it”

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Freedom: ‘A rat

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” a rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze”

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Freedom: ‘Freedom to and

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“Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from.Don’t underrate it.”

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Gender roles: ‘There is

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“There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore”

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Gender Roles: ‘We are for

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“We are for breeding purposes”

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Gender roles: “we are containers

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“We are containers…only the inside of our bodies are important”

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Gender roles: ‘better never means

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“better never means better for everyone.. it always means worse for some”

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Rebellion: ‘I believe in

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“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow”

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Rebellion: ‘Steal something

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“Steal something … make me feel I have power”

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Rebellion: ‘I hunger to

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” I hunger to commit the act of touch”

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Rebellion: ‘Why did

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“Why did she bother? There’s no way out of here.”

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Surveillance: ‘The truth is

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“The truth is that she is my spy, as I am hers”

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Regime: ‘It will

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“it will become ordinary”

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Regime: ‘They force

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“They force you to kill within yourself”

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Acceptance: ‘We still had

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“We still had our bodies.That was our fantasy”

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Relationships: They were right,

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“They were right, it’s easier, to think of her as dead. I don’t have to hope then”

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Relationships: “Nobody dies from

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‘Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.’

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Storytelling: ‘I would like to

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“I would like to believe that this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.’

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Storytelling: “Ill pretend you

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“I’ll pretend you can hear me. But it’s no good, because I know you can’t.”

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Storytelling: ‘Night falls.

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‘Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?’

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Confinement: “I have made

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“I have made a life for myself, here, of a sort.”

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Confinement: ‘Already we were

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‘Already we were losing the taste for freedom, already we were finding these walls secure.’

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Religion: ‘‘As in a

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‘As in a nunnery too, there are few mirrors.’

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Religion: ‘My God

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‘My God (…) I don’t believe for an instant that what’s going on out there is what You meant.’

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Identity: “we smile

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‘We smile too, we are one smile’

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Identity: ‘I keep

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‘I keep the knowledge of this name like something hidden, some treasure I’ll come back to dig up, one day.’

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Knowledge: ‘Knowing was a

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“Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you., Aunt Lydia used to say.”

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Knowledge: ‘Maybe I don’t

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“Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on… The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.”

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Gender roles: ‘to be a

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‘to be a man watched by women. must be entirely strange’

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Gender roles: ‘the problem wasn’t

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‘the problem wasn’t only with women, he says. the main problem was with the men’

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Power: ‘remember that

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‘remember that forgiveness too is a power’

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Identity: ‘the colour

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‘the colour of blood which defies us’

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Love: ‘falling in love

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‘falling in love, we said; i fell for him. we are falling women’

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indoctrination: ‘blessed be

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‘blessed be the fruit, may the lord open’

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The Handmaids Tale (7 decks)

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