The Handmaid's tale - quotes

Question 1

Chapter 30 - Aunt Lydia

Answer 1

Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you.”

Question 2

Chapter 3 - Aunt Lydia

Answer 2

“There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.”

-Aunt Lydia, chapter three

Question 3

Commander, chapter 32

Answer 3

“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.”

Question 4

Aunt Lydia, chapter eight

Answer 4

It’s not the husbands you have to watch out for, it’s the Wives. You should always try to imagine what they must be feeling; of course, they will resent you. It is only natural, try to feel for them.

Question 5

Aunt Lydia, chapter six.

Answer 5

Ordinary is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”

Answer 6

‘A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze’