Theme: Identity And Individual

Question 1

Concealed thoughts - 47

Answer 1

“The night is mine” - explores inner identity

Question 2

Concealed thoughts - 237

Answer 2

“Why fight? That will never do” - private dialogue between the text to show inner emotions

Question 3

Concealed thoughts - 195

Answer 3

“For them, one and one and one don’t make four” - commander joke about women’s identity

“Just one and one and one” - women not allowed to live complete

Question 4

Men’s identity erased - 42

Answer 4

“Their heads are zeros” “form another mouth, a small red one” “a smile of blood” - compare them to dolls, reduced identity

Question 5

Uniform - 31

Answer 5

“Shroud” - covers Offred’s body completely

Question 6

Uniform - 31

Answer 6

“He sees my eyes and I see his and he blushes” - communicating with Guardian (Eye) as an individual

Question 7

Dead daffodil - 108, 31

Answer 7

“Of what I once could do” - small gesture of defiance allows her to remind herself (108)

“Tiny peepholes” - women of Gilead discover fragments of previous identity of possibility