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Ordinary ch6

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

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Body as instrument ch 13

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I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will…

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Story ch7

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I would like to believe this story I am telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a much better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.

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Monster ch 24

Context: nazi comparison

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He was not a monster, to her. (…) How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.

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Problem 32
Reasons for Gilead
Liberation of gender roles
Men left astray

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The problem wasn’t only with the women , he says. The main problem was with the men. There was nothing for them anymore… (…) you know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. M

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Accepted greeting among us

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Blessed be the fruit

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Media role

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In the heart of gilead, where the war cannot intrude except on television

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Janine

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She is a flag on a hilltop, showing what can still be done: we too can be saved

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History

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It’s only more recent history that offends then

Women’s movement

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Serena joy speeches

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She doesn’t make speeches anymore. She has become speechless. She stays in her home, but it doesn’t seem to agree with her. How furious she must be now that she has been taken at her word.

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Offreds body

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I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely

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Offred and composure

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I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composed a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born”

Speech- public appearance

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Offred expectations

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I have failed once again to fulfil the expectations of others, which have become my own

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Moira power

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Moira had power now, she’d been set lose, she’d set herself loose. She was a loose woman.

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Serena’s garden

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There is smt subversive about this garden of serena’s; a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to say: whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently

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Commander gilead better and worse

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Better doesn’t mean better for everyone, he says.

It always mean worse for some

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Language as crime

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The crimes of others are a secret language among us.

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Latin phrase

Insert!

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Don’t let the bastards grind you down

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

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Past

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When we think of the past it’s the beautiful thing we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

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Perspective

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What I need is perspective. The illusion (…)
Perspective is necessary.
(…)
Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.

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Thinking clearly

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You can think clearly only with your clothes on

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Freedom aunt Lydia

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Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom for . Don’t underrate it.

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Meaning of life

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But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that it. No plot

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Rat in a maze

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

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Yearning

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We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, said that talent for insatiability.

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Offred to herself

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All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn’t be that hard.

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Foreshadow

Sanity

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Maybe the life I am living is a paranoid delusion…. sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people hoard money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes

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Wanting things to be back the way they were

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I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting

29
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Running and escaping

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It isn’t running away they’re afraid of . We would get far. It’s those other things escapes, the one you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge

30
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Knowing as a temptation

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

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Moira attitude to those in power

Use of language as power

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There is something powerful in the whispering or obscenities, about those in power. 
Delightful 
Naughty
Secretive 
Forbidden 
Thrilling 
It's like a spell
It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with
32
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commander’s wife garden

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it’s something for them to order and maintain and care for

33
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japanese tourists

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we are fascinated but also repelled

34
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offred’s past attitudes to lovers

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tried each other on

35
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doctor to offred

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I could help you
I’ve helped others
you want a baby don’t you?

36
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offred’s status

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I am a national resource

37
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society’s view of offred

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I wait, washed, brushed, fed like a prized pig

38
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religious parallels

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OT racheal and leah: the maid billah was made to carry the master’s child whilst the master’s wife raised it

39
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ch 16 first sexual encounter with commander

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my arms raised… and this is what i chose

40
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sex between handmaid and commnader

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this is not recreation, even for the commander. This is serious business. The commander, too, is doing his duty.

41
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what is permitted during sex and what is not

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kissing is forbidden between us. This makes it bearable

42
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offred’s changed relationship with the commander

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but apart from my placement in the room, little of that formality remains between us

the commander likes it when I distinguish myself, show precocity, like an attentive pet, prick eared and eager to perform

43
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handmaind’s prayer in the red centred

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make me fruitful
i may be multiplied
let me be fulfilled

44
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serena joy to offred about getting pregnant

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maybe you should try it another way
someone we trust
nick??

45
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prayvagazas

gender roles

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women’s are for group weddings

men’s are for military victories

46
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moira’s costume

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rabbit
unusual domesticated animal
dehumanised/tamed

47
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commander on jezebel

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it’s like walking into the past don’t you think

first time he’s asked her what she thinks

48
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patronymic names

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of fred

of glen

49
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jezebels

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princess of the hebrews corrupted–> gruesome death

50
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moira and offred dialogue at jezebel

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whore of babylon

–> religious context+ prostitute/brothel

51
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salvaging

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mass execution
for women only
‘rope like a snake’ garden of eden

52
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collective beatings for rapists

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particicution

53
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role of handmaids

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we aren’t suppose to form friendships

54
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chapter 46 ending

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I step up, into the darkness within, or else the light

55
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historical notes

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our job is not to censure but to understand

–> hypocritical

56
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historical notes ending

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are there any questions

57
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emptiness of the room

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a chair a lamp a table

58
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suicide precautions

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they’ve removed anything you could tie a rope to

59
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military connotation

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everything except the wings around my face is red… prescribed issue

60
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offred on the past

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once i had a garden

61
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gilead lack of democracy

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there are no lawyers and the university is closed

62
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wall

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sometimes they will be there for days, until there is a new batch, so as many people will have a chance to see them

63
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where is the latin saying engraved?

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in the corner where the darkest shadow fell

64
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offred being examined by the doctor

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there is another sheet, suspended from the ceiling (…) it intersects me (..) he deals with my torso only

65
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usual story for the “Ceremony”

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God to Adam, God to Noah. Be fruitful and multiply.

66
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we are two legged wombs:

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that’s all: sacred vessels, amulatory chalices

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