'The Handmaid's Tale' AO5 Quotes COPY Flashcards

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Beranguage

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“Offred’s power is in language” (Beran, 1990)
- Her storytelling gives her power and lives on after the regime has fallen

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Stockwisz control

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

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Gray - plausibility

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“Atwood’s novel lacks the direct, chilling plausibility of 1984” (Gray)

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Kouhescastrophes
(Purpose of ‘THT’)

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“To admonish the reader and make them think about all the catastrophes in their society” (Kouhestini)

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Atwood on Orwell’s influence

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“Orwell became a direct model” (Atwood, 2013)

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Page - speaks

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“Importantly, she speaks… suggesting that voice can ultimately triumph over forced muteness” (Page, 2018)

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Ryan Reynolds says words

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“THT is a novel that is about words, the manipulation of words, the construction of text” (Reynolds, 2004)

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Simons currency

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“Words, like ideas, are a forbidden currency in a regime that tries to control minds” (Simons, 2017)

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Beauvoirdentity

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

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Myrsiades - slaves

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“Reproductive slaves” (Myrsiades)

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Cavalcanti - ceremony

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“Monthly rape” (Cavalcanti)

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Simons parallel

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“Grotesque parallel of biblical values” (Simons, 2017)

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Weissregime

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“the Gilead regime is fairly new and has not had an opportunity to brainwash its citizens to such an extent” (Weiss, 2009)
- Compared to ‘1984’

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Ehrenreich - SSWS

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

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SubversEhrenreich

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

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Atwood - society

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

–> context

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Staelstorytelling

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

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Newman

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“Offred… is a fictional product of 1970’s feminism” (Newman, 2006)