Unreliable Narration Flashcards
HMT - Offred synaesthesia
‘The sound of glass… I feel like the word shatter.’
Frankenstein - too connected
“‘The story is too connected to be mistaken for a dream, and I have no motive for falsehood.”
Frankenstein - Destiny
Her immutable laws had decreed my utter and total destruction
Frankenstein - Youthful days
I was formed for peaceful happiness. During my youthful days discontent never entered my mind.
VS
‘We were never completely happy when Clerval was absent’.
Frankenstein - Justine silent
I resolved to remain silent
HMT - reconstruction
This is a reconstruction
HMT - sanity
Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it.
HMT - believing
This contradictory way of believing seems to me, right now, the only way I can believe anything.
HMT - name
My name isn’t Offred. I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden.
HMT - Crescent Moon
‘The Nature Walk and Outdoor Period-Costume Sing-Song have been rescheduled for the day after tomorrow.’
childish, final impression undermines previous story.
Frankenstein - guilt of accused
The guilt of the accused did not equal my own’
Frankenstein - Monster telling truth? oaths
‘I swear, by the sun, and by the blue sky of Heaven, and by the fire of love that burns in my heart.’
HMT - Offred falls back to romanticisation
‘I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am’.
HMT - The Ceremony
‘One detaches oneself. One describes.’ Detached from ‘I’ and shift from external event to internal - detached mind and body.
