Quotes HMT Flashcards
“I’m giving an underwrote party-Tupperware only with underwear”
“Pornomarts”
C10
-Rhythmic, trend at the time(reduction in society)
-Portmanteau, common knowledge now shunned
“Oiling themselves like roast meat on a spit”
C10
-simile, women things to indulge in like food. Dehumanising
“We lived in gaps between the stories”
C10
-hope, extended metaphor chance of freedom unrealistic journalism (disassociation-reader SHOULD be aware)
“FAITH” (cushion)
C10
-breaking the rules of literature (science)
-Gilead’s top priority for power
-Hope own faith
“Same as before now it’s obligatory” (doctor tests)
C11
-lack of freedom, aware of circumstances, digression of society
“I am poked and prodded” “My breasts are fingered” “honey”
C11
-rhyme, graphic language and disgusting, no consent
-A03 Texas ban too graphic however bible too.
-endearment, has power + pitty. Generalisation
“sterile” “you’re soft”
“Give me children or else I die”
C11
-men against men, they can be the problem. “Like babies coffins” (urinals)
-Double meaning, ovulating sexual or mocking can’t risk having sex
-A03 in Genesis bible, role of women Freud (hyperbole)
“National resource “ “worthy vessel” “thing” (to compose)
C12
-metaphor, only used for bodies yet protected? Monster no protection.
-A04 names monster called “wretched” “devil”
“Like a prized pig”
C13
-simile,animalistic language, dehumanising. A03 behaviourism (on animals compared to humans)
“Ganged raped at 14” “her fault”
C13
-repetition,rape controversial? Guy killed particicution.
-pin against each other.
“I have failed to fulfill the expectations of others”
C13
-identity and body image, disassociated from her self and her body
“There’s dried flower arrangements”
“Wreathe herself in flowers” (blue dress)
C14
-Serena compared / world infertile, dried.
-appearing ‘fertile’ trying to seem young, get attention. Isolated Serena
“Coloured zigzags” TV! “Angels of apocalypse” “only victory never defeat”
C14
-Nazi Germany control + manipulation of media (China +India) Internet
-jux. Angels signify death, not protectors but objects of fear
Name= “treasure” “I’m made of smoke”
-identity metaphor. Important keeps it dehumanised A03 Iran (handmaids)
-past+present merge (Serena’s smoke) insignificant also memories fading her escape.
“Cross legged” “bedtime story”
-compares herself to a child, missing her own or significant of innocence
commander as “slug” “bulging at the tip” “blind”
-extended metaphor of sex also he’s seen as weak and frail can’t see.
“To have them sizing him up” “tried each other on-like suits”
-phrase. change in society, men now get attention.
-simile Sex used to be casual
“Behold my maid Bilhah. I may also have children by her” “they left things out too”
-A03 real bible story, Racheal and Leah. Fertility issues
-Fabrication/twisting the word. For manipulation and power. “Puff of air”
