THMT

Question 1

Ordinary ch6

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Body as instrument ch 13

Answer 2

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…

Question 3

Story ch7

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Monster ch 24

Context: nazi comparison

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Accepted greeting among us

Answer 6

Blessed be the fruit

Question 7

Media role

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Janine

Answer 8

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

Question 9

History

Answer 9

It’s only more recent history that offends then

Women’s movement

Question 10

Serena joy speeches

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Offreds body

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Offred and composure

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Offred expectations

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Moira power

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Serena’s garden

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Commander gilead better and worse

Answer 16

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

It always mean worse for some

Question 17

Language as crime

Answer 17

The crimes of others are a secret language among us.

Question 18

Latin phrase

Insert!

Answer 18

Don’t let the bastards grind you down

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

Question 19

Past

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Perspective

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Thinking clearly

Answer 21

You can think clearly only with your clothes on

Question 22

Freedom aunt Lydia

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Meaning of life

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Rat in a maze

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Yearning

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Offred to herself

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Foreshadow | Sanity

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Wanting things to be back the way they were

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Running and escaping

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Knowing as a temptation

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Moira attitude to those in power | Use of language as power

Answer 31

``` 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 ```

Question 32

commander's wife garden

Answer 32

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

Question 33

japanese tourists

Answer 33

we are fascinated but also repelled

Question 34

offred's past attitudes to lovers

Answer 34

tried each other on

Question 35

doctor to offred

Answer 35

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

Question 36

offred's status

Answer 36

I am a national resource

Question 37

society's view of offred

Answer 37

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

Question 38

religious parallels

Answer 38

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

Question 39

ch 16 first sexual encounter with commander

Answer 39

my arms raised... and this is what i chose

Question 40

sex between handmaid and commnader

Answer 40

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

Question 41

what is permitted during sex and what is not

Answer 41

kissing is forbidden between us. This makes it bearable

Question 42

offred's changed relationship with the commander

Answer 42

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

Question 43

handmaind's prayer in the red centred

Answer 43

make me fruitful i may be multiplied let me be fulfilled

Question 44

serena joy to offred about getting pregnant

Answer 44

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

Question 45

prayvagazas | gender roles

Answer 45

women's are for group weddings | men's are for military victories

Question 46

moira's costume

Answer 46

rabbit unusual domesticated animal dehumanised/tamed

Question 47

commander on jezebel

Answer 47

it's like walking into the past don't you think | first time he's asked her what she thinks

Question 48

patronymic names

Answer 48

of fred | of glen

Question 49

jezebels

Answer 49

princess of the hebrews corrupted--> gruesome death

Question 50

moira and offred dialogue at jezebel

Answer 50

whore of babylon | --> religious context+ prostitute/brothel

Question 51

salvaging

Answer 51

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

Question 52

collective beatings for rapists

Answer 52

particicution

Question 53

role of handmaids

Answer 53

we aren't suppose to form friendships

Question 54

chapter 46 ending

Answer 54

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

Question 55

historical notes

Answer 55

our job is not to censure but to understand | --> hypocritical

Question 56

historical notes ending

Answer 56

are there any questions

Question 57

emptiness of the room

Answer 57

a chair a lamp a table

Question 58

suicide precautions

Answer 58

they've removed anything you could tie a rope to

Question 59

military connotation

Answer 59

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

Question 60

offred on the past

Answer 60

once i had a garden

Question 61

gilead lack of democracy

Answer 61

there are no lawyers and the university is closed

Question 62

wall

Answer 62

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

Question 63

where is the latin saying engraved?

Answer 63

in the corner where the darkest shadow fell

Question 64

offred being examined by the doctor

Answer 64

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

Question 65

usual story for the "Ceremony"

Answer 65

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

Question 66

we are two legged wombs:

Answer 66

that's all: sacred vessels, amulatory chalices