The Handmaids Tale And Frankenstein Quotes Flashcards
Offered claiming agency over the her time
“The night is mine, my own time, to do with as I will”
Offreds unreliability and lack of voice
“I’ll pretend you can hear me/ but it’s no good, because I know you can’t”
Offred’s loneliness without friends
“It’s hard to imagine now, having a friend” - like creature
Wives gardens
“Many of the wives have such gardens, it’s something for them to order and maintain and care for”
Aunt Lydia talking about freedom
“There is more than one kind of freedom, said aunt Lydia. 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”
Butter skin quote
“As long as we do this, butter our skin to keep it soft we can believe that someday we can get out, that we will be touched in love or desire we have ceremonies if our own, private ones”
Moira dehumanizing handmaids
“Think of yourselves as seeds”/
Offreds narrative control
“If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending”
Carving in wardrobe
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down” in Latin
Illusion of Freedom analogy maze
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere as long as it stays in the maze”
Bodies freedom
“We still had our bodies. That was our fantasy”
Control handmaids seeing
“They are to keep us from seeing but also from being seen”
Offreds view on her body
“ I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely”
Doll metaphor
“I felt like one of those dolls that would talk if you pulled a string at the back”
Dog collars
“Women with dog collars around their necks”
Offreds been manipulated
“The fact is that I no longer want to leave, escape, cross the boarder to freedom. I want to be here, with nick, where I can get at him”
Under surveillance
“We learned to lip read”
Janine birth
“It must be from Janine: a smell of dens, of inhabited caves, the smell of the plaid blanket on the bed where the cat gave birth”
Dehumanization of women - meat
“The spectacles women used to make of themselves. Oiling themselves like roast meat on a spit”
Gilead boiling analogy
“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you know it”
Handmaids reduction to biology
“Two legged womb”
Rupturing of Offreds narrative
“The tapes were arranged in no particular order.. nor were they numbered”. “Period costume sing song “
“The underground frail road”
Red center
“Once we had to watch a woman slowly being cut into pieces, her fingers and breasts snipped off with garden shears, her stomach slit open and intestines pulled out”
