XIV Salvaging Flashcards
‘This is the story then’
Here it goes
‘I try to think about making love, in the dark, in the light reflected off the white walls. I remember being held’
Her relationship with sex is unhealthy as it is used as a trauma escapism. She submerges any trauma with sex
‘There is bloodlust’
‘This is freedom’
‘I want to go to bed, make love, right now’
‘Things are back to normal’
Offred now is accepting her current situation as is creating it as her new normal
‘He doesn’t look at me’
She is constantly in the pursuit of emotional attention
‘I am Ofglen’
She is cutting any boundaries of any familiarity towards one another. Shows that Offred is at a posed to danger as she is now making the handmaids to be deemed as individuals
‘I feel, for their first time, their true power’
‘You could have left me something’? (Serena-Offred)
Reader can sympathise towards serena joy as she is feeling robbed of her husband
