Storytelling Flashcards
HMT - story is extension of Offred’s body, disembodied and worn down by society
“I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized… I wish it had more shape.”
HMT - Moira VS Aunt Lydia
“What we’re aiming for, says Aunt Lydia, is a spirit of camaraderie among women…
“Camaraderie, shit, says Moira”
HMT - Aunt Lydia
“How many years since I’ve seen her? I’d begun to
think she existed only in my head, but here she is, a
little older”
Frankenstein - ‘Strange and harrowing’
“Strange and harrowing must be his story, frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it—thus!”
Frankenstein - ‘listen to my history’
“listen to my history, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is determined.”
Frankenstein - ‘the cottagers’
“the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and
wonder”
Frankenstein - ‘spirits’
“He had heard my story with that half kind of belief that is given to a tale of spirits and supernatural events.”
Frankenstein - ‘too connected’
“‘The story is too connected to be mistaken for a dream, and I have no motive for falsehood.”
HMT - ‘reconstruction’
“This is a reconstruction”
HMT - (About Moira)
“I’ve tried to make it sound as much like her as I can”
HMT - ‘blocks of speech’
“arrange the blocks of speech…based on some guesswork.”
HMT - gaps
‘We lived in the gaps between the stories.’
HMT - direct address - parody of Descartes ‘I think therefore I am’.
I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.
Frankenstein - Victor plays role of editor if the novel - notes on his history
‘corrected and augmented them… Since you have preserved my narration, said he, I would not that a mutilated one should go down in posterity.’
Frankenstein - language
‘godlike science’
HMT - double meanings of words
‘Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?’
BOTH - ending (x3)
Offred - ‘And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.’
Professor Pieixoto - ‘the past is a great darkness… try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.’
Creature - ‘He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness and distance.’
HMT - Offred’s story damaged creation like creature
’ I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story.’
