'The Handmaid's Tale' AO5 quotes Flashcards

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Hansolation

Hansot (1994)

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“her isolation as well as her fear severely limits her involvement”

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Speaks

Page (2018)

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“Importantly, she speaks… suggesting that voice can ultimately triumph over forced muteness”

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Ryan Reynolds says words

Reynolds (2004)

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“THT is a novel that is about words, the manipulation of words, the construction of text”

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Clistaboo

Clist (2013)

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“When simply speaking is dangerous, daring to play with language could be thrillingly taboo. Offered is indeed intoxicated by the freedom”

–> scrabble

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Currency

Simons (2017)

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“Words, like ideas, are a forbidden currency in a regime that tries to control minds”

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Feminism

Greenwood (2009)

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“The arguments of cultural feminism are seen through THT to have been taken up by the regime, twisted and used against women”

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Reproduction & identity

Beauvoir

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“When a woman loses her reproductive capacity, she loses her primary function and therefore identity”

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Myrsiades

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“Reproductive slaves”

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Ceremony

Cavalcanti

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“Monthly rape”

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Theocratic regime

Jones

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“Reinvigorated hatred of women and the explosive growth of religious fundamentalism”

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NYT (1986)

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“A nation formed by a backlash of feminism”

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Bible

Simons (2017)

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“Grotesque parallel of biblical values”

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new regime

Weiss

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“Gilead regime is fairly new and has not had an opportunity to brainwash its citizens to such an extent”

–> comp to Oceania in ‘1984’

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Stockwisz

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“Language is highlighted as the main instrument of ideological and social control”

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Bouson

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“If this is resistance, it is a very silent and ineffectual kind”

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SubversEhrenreich

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“As in 1984, the only subversive force appears to be love”

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Storytelling

Staels

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“storytelling is Offred’s means of survival and resistance”

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Society

Margaret Atwood

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“The Handmaid’s tale is a slight twist of the society we have now”

–> context

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AO4 - Winston

Ehrenreich

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“Gilead is only a colouring book version of Oceania… Offred is a sappy stand-in for Winston Smith”