'The Handmaid's Tale' AO5 quotes Flashcards
Hansolation
Hansot (1994)
“her isolation as well as her fear severely limits her involvement”
Speaks
Page (2018)
“Importantly, she speaks… suggesting that voice can ultimately triumph over forced muteness”
Ryan Reynolds says words
Reynolds (2004)
“THT is a novel that is about words, the manipulation of words, the construction of text”
Clistaboo
Clist (2013)
“When simply speaking is dangerous, daring to play with language could be thrillingly taboo. Offered is indeed intoxicated by the freedom”
–> scrabble
Currency
Simons (2017)
“Words, like ideas, are a forbidden currency in a regime that tries to control minds”
Feminism
Greenwood (2009)
“The arguments of cultural feminism are seen through THT to have been taken up by the regime, twisted and used against women”
Reproduction & identity
Beauvoir
“When a woman loses her reproductive capacity, she loses her primary function and therefore identity”
Myrsiades
“Reproductive slaves”
Ceremony
Cavalcanti
“Monthly rape”
Theocratic regime
Jones
“Reinvigorated hatred of women and the explosive growth of religious fundamentalism”
NYT (1986)
“A nation formed by a backlash of feminism”
Bible
Simons (2017)
“Grotesque parallel of biblical values”
new regime
Weiss
“Gilead regime is fairly new and has not had an opportunity to brainwash its citizens to such an extent”
–> comp to Oceania in ‘1984’
Stockwisz
“Language is highlighted as the main instrument of ideological and social control”
Bouson
“If this is resistance, it is a very silent and ineffectual kind”
SubversEhrenreich
“As in 1984, the only subversive force appears to be love”
Storytelling
Staels
“storytelling is Offred’s means of survival and resistance”
Society
Margaret Atwood
“The Handmaid’s tale is a slight twist of the society we have now”
–> context
AO4 - Winston
Ehrenreich
“Gilead is only a colouring book version of Oceania… Offred is a sappy stand-in for Winston Smith”
