handmaids

Question 1

name a scientific setting?

Answer 1

Harvard university

Question 2

what is significant about Offreds mother?

Answer 2

she is a radical second wave feminism

Question 3

how does the text present sacrificial victims?

Answer 3

janine - women associated with imagery of purity who go through great trauma

Question 4

what is Offreds mother attending when Offred has a memory of her? (ch7)

Answer 4

the pornography burning

Question 5

why does Offred say she values the nighttime?

Answer 5

she has time to her self in order to think and remember her past life - moment of freedom and rebellion

Question 6

which group of outsiders do Offred bumb into on the way back from the shop?

Answer 6

japanese tourists

Question 7

what is the significance of the quotation “i would like to believe this is a story i’m telling”

Answer 7

shows the narrative is constructed and she is an unreliable narrator

Question 8

in the historic notes how do we know patriarchal control hasn’t changed?

Answer 8

male academic telling the narrative, makes a sexist joke about offred

Question 9

how does Atwood draw a parallel between nick and luke?

Answer 9

relationships with both, elicit emotions, imagines 3 scenarios with both

Question 10

what is the AO3 link to decree 770 set by the roman government?

Answer 10

mandatory health checks for women, banned contraception - links to women being used to reproduce only and having health checks