HMT - Quotes Flashcards

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‘A return…

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‘A return to traditional values’

pg 13

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‘Hunger to…

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‘Hunger to commit the act of touch’

pg 17

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‘Perhaps…

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‘Perhaps he is an eye’

pg 24

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‘Blessed…

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‘Blessed be the fruit’

pg 25

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‘I enjoy…

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‘I enjoy the power’

pg 28

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‘Freedom to…

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‘Freedom to and freedom from’

pg 30

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‘I used to dress…

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‘I used to dress like that. That was freedom’

pg 34

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‘The night…

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‘The night is mine, my own time’

pg 43

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9
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‘Where should…

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‘Where should I go?’

pg 43

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‘I have them,…

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‘I have them, these attacks of the past’

pg 58

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‘Time as…

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‘Time as white sound’

pg 75

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‘Im a refugee…

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‘Im a refugee from the past’

pg 235

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13
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‘this limping…

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‘this limping and mutilated story’

pg 275

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‘Faith is only…

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‘Faith is only a word, embroidered’

pg 300

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‘I’m sorry its in

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‘I’m sorry its in fragments’

pg 275

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16
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‘Voice of…

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‘Voice of a monotone, voice of a doll’

pg

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17
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‘Modesty…

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‘Modesty is invisibility’

pg

18
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‘if its a story I’m…

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‘if its a story I’m telling, than I have control over the ending’
pg

19
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‘You don’t…

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‘You don’t tell a story only to yourself’

pg

20
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‘Ordinary said Aunt Lydia…

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‘Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary’ (Offred reflects of Aunts words highlighting the totalitarian brain wash turning something traumatic to ‘blankness’)
End of chapter 6

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‘I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling…

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‘I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off’
(family, reader, story, inner state. Horror of Gilead day by day. Telling story is a rebellion. Story gives her ‘control over the ending’ + hope for the future. Denies Gilead control over inner life)
End chapter 7.

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‘I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or…

PAGE 29 CH 13

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'I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will . . . Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping' 
Chapter 13 
(before body was extension of her self, now herself no longer matters. Dehumanising)
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‘He was not a monster, to her. Probably had some…

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‘He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, offkey, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation (Chapter 24)

> Comparing documentary of mistress of Nazi camp solider and commander situation

24
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End of chapter 32?

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Commander justifying creation of Gilead. Suggests feminism left men without a purpose in life etc… Sex lost meaning…

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‘I thought I was…

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‘I thought I was sounding like that, voice of a monotone, voice of a doll’ (one most common tropes of feminist writing is imprisonment. Literally imprisoned in commanders house.

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Serena Joy ‘pacing…

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‘pacing back and forth’ (trapped in prison as well. Trapped in living room > she’s commanders furniture to move where ever i.e. when sits in living room for ceremony ‘he looks us over as if taking inventory…’ Items of furniture.

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Offreds mother: ‘but there is something…

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‘But there is something missing in them, even the nice ones’ ‘A man is just a women’s strategy for making other women’ (Atwood critical of feminism shutting out men and Moria admires her mother reflecting this her character as well. Presents lesbianism as a political choice)

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‘From each according to her ability…

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‘From each according to her ability; to each according to his needs’, ‘it was from the bible’ ‘St Paul again’. But no this is a Karl Marx comment and its ‘his’ not ‘her’ > its socialism which very far from Gilead which highlights Gilead scriptural emphasis being more about control than faith as a theocracy!!!

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‘There are new…

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‘There are new bodies on the wall. One is a priest’

pg 49, first page of Chapter 8

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‘I go out by the back door, into the garden…

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‘I go out by the back door, into the garden, which is large and tidy…this garden is the domain of the commanders wife’
‘its something for them to order and maintain and care for’
pg 18, start chapter 3

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‘existing of…

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‘existing apart from the body, had been true of the commander too, I knew now’
pg 165, start chapter 26

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‘This is a…

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‘This is a reconstruction’

33
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‘They’ve removed…

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‘They’ve removed anything you could tie a rope to’

start chapter 2

34
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‘Thinking can hurt…

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‘Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last’

start chapter 2

35
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‘The white wings too…

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‘The white wings too are prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing, but also from being seen’
pg 14, chapter 2

36
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‘a palm…

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‘a palimpsest of unheard sound’
(re writing material, old shine through)
pg 9, chapter 1 start

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‘God is a…

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‘God is a national recourse’

pg 221, chapter 33

38
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‘people will do anything…

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‘people would do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.’
pg 223, chapter 33

39
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‘Under his…

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‘Under His Eye’

pg 293, chapter 44 end.

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‘I want to keep living…

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‘I want to keep living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others. They can do what they like with me. I am abject.’
pg 294, start chapter 45

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‘the human…

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‘the human heart remains a factor’

pg 319, historical notes