THT - the reliability of Offred’s narration Flashcards

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Announcements before

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“None of us want to miss lunch”
“Fishing expedition”

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What was prof. Pieixoto responsible for?

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“Transcription, annotation and publication”

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Proof that the timeline is messed up

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“Arrangements are based on some guesswork”

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Proof that we have no idea when Offred recorded this

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“No machines or tapes would have been available to her”

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Names unreliability

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“There is a high probability that these were […] pseudonyms”

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Proof that gilead was fabricated from everything else

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“Nothing that was truly original […] to gilead” (Phillipines, prisoner camps during ww2, seventeenth century english customs)

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Pieixoto bias

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“Brilliant stroke”

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