Critical Flashcards
(10 cards)
“Moira is Offred’s revolutionary alter ego”
Weiss
“Offred is guilty of complacency, complicity and selfish concern for her own private needs and desires”
Weiss
“Many of the features of Gilead are similar to the reader of dystopian fiction”
Ketterer
“A pendulum-swing away from present-day feminism”
Ketterer
“Offred’s power is in language”
Beran
“The work women do conspires to maintain the subjection of their own kind”
Goldblatt
“If Offred is a sappy stand in for Winston Smith, Gilead seems to be only a colouring book version of Oceania”
Gardener
“The state intent is to deny the bonds of private loyalty and bring about uncritical obedience to the state”
Gottlieb
“Atwood’s novel lacks the chilling, direct plausibility of 1984 and Brave New World”
Gray
“THT condemns the patriarchial oppression of women by men but
It condemns the betrayal of women by women even more strongly”
Heather Hendershot
