XII Jezebels

Question 1

‘These days i script whole fights, in my head and the reconciliation afterwards too’

Question 2

‘You can go and ask her if you like’

Answer 2

Child like speaking as if serena joy is the parent

Question 3

A shame making you wear all them pillowcases -Rita

Answer 3

Humour: signs of the past life prevail in the present

Question 4

Such a fine thought, it makes me shiver

Answer 4

Desirable

Question 5

‘It must amuse him, this fake subservience’

Answer 5

Subservience: noun. Men feeling gratification over how society is submitting to them without any regulation.

Question 6

‘This lack of fear is dangerous’

Answer 6

Links to the Machiavellian ideology: to be feared or to be loved.

Question 7

‘Men were turning off on sex even. They were turning off on marriage’

Answer 7

This links to the Luke’s previous marriage, he previously was turned off in his marriage hence his affair with Offred to make him ‘feel’.

Question 8

‘You’re intelligent enough. You must have an opinion’

Answer 8

Commanders tone is patronising , questioning her capabilities.

Question 9

‘Better never means better for everyone, he says. It’s always worse for some’

Question 10

I suppose its a form of entertainment, like a show or circus

Answer 10

In reference to the prayvaganza: this is sadistic

Question 11

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

Question 12

‘For Adam was formed first. Then eve’

Question 13

‘ I don’t want to be telling this story’

Question 14

‘He prefers me frivolous’

Answer 14

Commander likes the submission, the no resistance

Question 15

‘SHAME is printed on them in red’

Answer 15

Female sexual nature is shamed, in the eyes of Gilead, they have no integrity

Question 16

‘You expect me to put this on?’ . I know my voice sounds prudish and disapproving’

Answer 16

Her mentality has shifted, as much as there is resistance, she accustomed to the values set by Gilead

Question 17

‘So sinful, so free’

Answer 17

Ideology of free will in Christian beliefs

Question 18

‘A movie about the past is not the same as the past’

Question 19

‘He is demonstrating, to me, his mastery of the world’

Question 20

‘The men are not homogenous’

Answer 20

An indication of a diversity within Gilead

Question 21

‘It means you can’t cheat nature’

Answer 21

Ironic as the purpose of Gilead was to reform the liberal ways of people but the Commander ultimately knows that how you are naturally will prevail

Question 22

‘Nature demands variety, for men’—‘Woman know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many different clothes, in the old days? To trick the men to thinking they were several women. A new one each day’

Answer 22

Narcissistic view that women flatter themselves for the men. Women are the provokers

Question 23

‘You’d have to watch your weight’

Answer 23

Female beauty standards

Question 24

‘You look like the whore of Babylon’ (Moira to Offred)

Question 25

Here is what I’d like to tell—