The Handmaid’s Tale Flashcards

Question

What is televangelism?

Answer 1

Televangelism is the practice of using television, and sometimes radio, to broadcast religious messages, often to promote a specific form of Christianity and raise funds for religious organizations

Answer 2

Freud believed that when female children realise they lack a penis they feel ‘castrated’ in comparison to males. Freud believed this is a pivotal moment in female sexual development and can lead to mental illness Chapter 29 - “Pen Is Envy”

Answer 3

This is the term used by Nazis to refer to Jewish people It means ‘sub-human’ and became a justification for genocide

Answer 4

Survival Margaret Atwood - she wrote a book on it

Answer 5

The Cross of the German Mother

Answer 6

Links to Playboy Mansion in the 1960s Playboy Hugh Hefner said he chose the bunny “because it’s a fresh animal, shy, vivacious, jumping - sexy.”

Answer 7

James Phelan's theory of unreliable narration distinguishes between "estranging unreliability" and "bonding unreliability" to better understand how authors use unreliable narrators to affect readers' relationships with the text and the real world. Estranging unreliability creates distance between the narrator and the implied audience, while bonding unreliability fosters a closer connection

Answer 8

A Clockwork Orange In the novel, drugs play a significant role, primarily in the context of the Ludovico Technique, a forced conditioning treatment

Answer 9

“I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone.” - C4 “To be seen - to be seen - is to be - penetrated. What you must be, girls, is impenetrable" - C5 “Men and women tried each-other on, casually, like suits” - C9 “Maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.” - C13 “Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.” - C18 “Women kneeling, sucking penises or guns, women tied up or chained or with dog collars around their necks, women hanging from trees, or upside-down, naked, with their legs held apart, women being raped, beaten up, killed.” - C20 “Why are rabbits supposed to be sexually attractive to men?” - C37

Answer 10

“She looked disgusting: weak, squirmy, blotchy, pink, like a newborn mouse. None of us wanted to look like that ever. For a moment, even though we knew what was being done to her, we despised her. / Crybaby. Crybaby. Crybaby. We meant it, which is the bad part.” - C13 “We make her salivate morally. We are hers to define. We must suffer her adjectives.” - C19 “You wanted a women’s culture. Well now there is one. It isn’t what you meant but it exists. Be thankful.” - C21 “You could’ve left me something.” - C45 “Control of the indigenous by members of their own group.” - HN

Answer 11

“I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone.” - C4 “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.” - C15 ”Remember that forgiveness too is power…maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it.” - C23 “Maybe he even likes it. We are not each other’s anymore. Instead, I am his.” - C28 “He stops at the foot, his fingers encircling the ankle, briefly, like a bracelet, where the tattoo is, a braille he can read, a cattle brand. It means ownership.” - C39

Answer 12

“There is more than one kind of freedom… Freedom to and freedom from. Don’t underrate it.” - C5 “Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to…it will become ordinary.” - C6 “Nothing changed instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.” - C10 "A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze." - C27 "Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some." - C32

Answer 13

“Some deal made…we still had our bodies. That was our fantasy.” - C1 “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” - C10 “She’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.” - C22 “The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains.” - C29 “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Fat lot of good it did her, why fight?” - C35 “What I hear in her voice is indifference, a lack of volition.” - C38

Answer 14

“Waste not, want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? - C2 “The colour of blood which defines us.” - C2 “I’m a mirage, fading before their eyes.” - C15 “I feel like the word shatter.” - C16 “We are hers to define.” - C19 “We are two-legged wombs, that’s all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices.” - C23 “He stops at the foot, his fingers encircling the ankle, briefly, like a bracelet, where the tattoo is, a braille he can read, a cattle brand. It means ownership.” - C39

Answer 15

“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability” - C1 “There is more than one kind of freedom… Freedom to and freedom from.” - C5 “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.” - C6 “Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.” - C10

Answer 16

“Blessed be the fruit.” - C4 “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.” - C15 “My tongue felt thick with the effort of spelling. It was like using a language I’d once known but had nearly forgotten.” - C25 “The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains.” - C29 “Pen is Envy” - C29

Answer 17

“Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.” - C12 “The Bible is kept locked up, the way people once kept tea locked up, so the servants wouldn’t steal it.” - C15 “We make her salivate morally.” - C19 “God is a national resource.” - C33

Answer 18

“Underwhore party” - C10 “Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.” - C22 “Moira was our fantasy.” - C22 “What I hear in her voice is indifference, a lack of volition.” - C38

Answer 19

“There is more than one kind of freedom,” said Aunt Lydia. “Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.” - C5 To be seen—to be seen—is to be penetrated. What you must be, girls, is impenetrable.” - C5 “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.” - C6 “For our purposes your feet and your hands are not essential.” - C13 “We make her salivate morally. We are hers to define. we must suffer her adjectives.” - C19

Answer 20

“He’s just that: impassive, inscrutable.” - C4 “Cap is tilted at a jaunty angle…cigarette…black market” - C4 “He winks” - C4 “He’s so close that the tip of his boot is touching my foot. Is this a message, a sign of something?” “Moves his foot so it’s touching mine again” - C14 “I want to reach up, taste his skin, he makes me hungry.” - C17 “Does it fill him with disgust, or make him want more of me? Want me more?” - C28 “I make of him an idol” - C41

Answer 21

“I am a reproach to her; and a necessity.” - C3 “It’s not the husbands you have to watch out for, said Aunt Lydia, it’s the wives…try to feel for them.” - C6 “She doesn’t make speeches anymore. She has become speechless.” - C8 “Saint Serena, on her knees, doing penance.” - C25 “You could’ve left me something” - C45

Answer 22

“He looks over us as if taking inventory.” - “C15 “The watching is a curiously sexual act, and I feel undressed while he does it.” - C29 “That’s not real Latin he says, that’s just a joke.” - C29 “You know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. Men were turning off on sex, even.” - C32 “Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse for some.” - C32 “He stops at the foot, his fingers encircling the ankle, briefly, like a bracelet, where the tattoo is, a braille he can read, a cattle brand. It means ownership.” - C39

Answer 23

“Doubled, I walk the street” - C5 “It occurs to me that she may be a spy, a plant, sent to trap me.” - C27 “Don’t be stupid. He wasn’t a rapist at all, he was a political. He was one of ours. I knocked him out. Put him out of his misery.” - C43 “She died that I may live.” - C45

Answer 24

“She looked disgusting: weak, squirmy, blotchy, pink, like a newborn mouse. None of us wanted to look like that ever. For a moment, even though we knew what was being done to her, we despised her. / Crybaby. Crybaby. Crybaby. We meant it, which is the bad part.” - C13 “whiny bitch” - C21 “By that time Janine was like a puppy that’s been kicked too often, by too many people, at random: she’d roll over for anyone.” - C22 “Her eyes were open, but they didn’t see me at all. They were rounded, wide, and her teeth, she was whispering to herself.” - C33

Answer 25

“Luke was still in flight from his wife.” - C9 “Before we were married and I solidified” - C9 “He teased her by pretending to be macho, he'd tell her women were incapable of abstract thought.” - C20 “Chauvinist pig, she’d say. Isn’t she quaint, Luke would say to me…Piglet, I should have said.” - C20 “He doesn't mind it at all. Maybe he even likes it. We are not each other's, anymore. Instead, I am his.” - C28 “I sense in him none of the animosity I used to sense in men, even in Luke sometimes. He's not saying bitch in his head.” - C29

The Handmaid’s Tale Flashcards

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