Critics Quotes Flashcards
(22 cards)
Whisker
Division
There is no sisterhood only division and disempowerment”
Howells
Bible
Gilead is a totalitarian regime run on Patriarchal lines from the old testament
Klarer
Patriachy
These measures aim at giving male leadership all the advantages
Stokwisz
Language
“Language is highlighted as the main instrument of ideological and social control”
Macpherson
fear
Fear of betrayal and inculcated self surveillance keep the handmaids from speaking out”
Flen
Humanity
Atwood suggests that not only civil liberties but humanity itself is threatened by an increasingly degraded and dehumanizing culture”
Guiner
Names
Indeed the desire of the Gilead regime to remove name is as strong as the desire to remove faces
Attwood
Offred
“Offred is an ordinary, more-or-less cowardly woman rather than a heroine
Callaway
Power structure
Gilead’s power structure is an expression of the disunity of women
Andrews
Moira
Moira’s main role is exposing Offred’s cowardice through the difference between how they behave”
Rigney
Not paying attention
Not paying attention is the great fault of Offred’s entire society, and the price exacted is the loss of freedom
Atwood
Love affairs
“If the regime forbids love affairs, then one of the rebellious things you can do is have one”
Atwood
Gilead society
The handmaid’s tale is a slight twist on the society we have now”
Cooper
Male power
“The proprietorial eye of male desire becomes theweapon of fascism in Gilead”
Reshmi
Reproductive function
“Her body is segmented,and her value is determined on the basis of her reproductive capability”
Callaway
Serena Joy
“new form of misogyny ,women’s hatred of women”
Peters
Serena Joy
“she is trapped within the ideologies she’s created”
Klarer
Male power
Women from all classes of society are denied type of written discourse. These measures aim at giving male leadership all the advantages”
Gulick
Aunts
They are “mouthpieces for the ideas of the patriarchal leaders of this society.
Onyett
Aunts
Driven by a leaden determination to obey orders from above
=Macpherson
Offred
Offred “is not heroic. She is, instead, a passiveeverywoman, awaiting rescue””
Stokwisz
Commander
“the relationship with the Commander is still a game of sexual power
