Quotes The Handmaid's Tale Flashcards
A paranoid quote by Offred about Oflgen
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“It occurd to me that she may be a spy”
Name a quote by Offred that shows the violent impact the totalitarian regime has on her.
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“They force you to kill, within yourself”
About Serena Joy
“She doesn’t make ____ anymore. She has become ___.
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Offred talks about Serena Joy:
“She doesn’t make speeches anymore. She has become speechless.
She stays in her home, but it doesn’t seem to agree with her. How furious she must be now that she has been taken at her word.”
Fill in the gaps
“____ never means ____ for everyone… It always means ____ for some”
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The Commander tells Offred
“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse for some.”
What quote by Offred shows the indroctrination of children?
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Start them soon is the policy
This quote shows us that just like in Nazi Germany, and just like with Parson’s children is Nineteen Eighty-Four, all totalitarian regimes start with children as they are the most impressionable.
What quote shows the class difference in The Handmaid’s Tale?
THT
“In the houses of the Commanders, there is still real coffee.”
Aunt Lydia
“A —- in a —– is free to go anywhere, as —- as it —– —— the —–”
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“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
This quote talks about women sticking to their role inside the confinenment of societal boundies.
What does this quote mean?
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
The women are allowed to do whatever they want so long as it’s within the social confinements.
A quote that shows hardships for all women, even the ones who possess some authority.
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“don’t think it’s easy for me either, said Aunt Lydia”
A quote from the epilogue (Rachel and Leah)
“give me children, or else I die”
Quote about ignoring:
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“We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it”
A quote that shows the role of the Handmaid’s being presented as a duty”
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“Think of it as being in the army”
Importance of communication
(The Handmaid’s are forbidden from speaking, give a quote that shows them finding ways to talk)
“We learned to whisper without a sound”
A quote that shows the Handmaid’s being unable to escape via death
“They’ve removed anything you can tie a rope to”
A quote showing the bible justifying violence against women
“They can hit us, there’s scriptural precedent”
Offred doesn’t trust anyone - a quote showing Offred’s initial distrust of Nick
“Perhaps he is an eye”
Aunt Lydia telling the girls that they are saved by Gilead from the dangers and oppression of the time before
“There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underage it”
“Women were not protected then”
The meaning of “mayday”
“It’s French, he said. For M’aidez. Help me”
Offred’s possession over her room and the invasion she feels when she realises the commander has been inside
“I called it mine”
Don’t let the bastard grind you down
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”
Aunt Lydia teaching blaming women
“Her fault, her fault, her fault”
“Such things do not happen to nice women”
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Women becoming a commodity.
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The commodification of women
“I am a natural resource”
“I tell myself it doesn’t ___, your name is like your ___ ____, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is ___, it ___ ___”
“I tell myself it doesn’t matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter”
“I tell myself it doesn’t ___ your name is like your ___ ____, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is ___, it ___ ___”
“I tell myself it doesn’t matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong it does matter”
Quote Offred comparing her name to a telephone number.
“I tell myself it doesn’t matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter”
Constant state of war in The Handmaid’s Tale
“The war seems to be going on in many places at once”
