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Flashcards by oliviamilford, updated more than 1 year ago
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| The Handmaid's Tale - Margret Atwood: Femininity | "My nakedness is strange to me already. [...] Did I really wear bathing suits, at the beach? ... Shameful, immodest." - Offred has been brainwashed so much to the point that she finds her own naked body shameful |
| The Handmaid's Tale - Margret Atwood: Femininity | "Mother, I think. Wherever you may be. Can you hear me? You wanted a women's culture. Well, now there is one." - In an ironic moment of anti-feminism, a "women's culture" does exist, but it isn't one any reasonable feminist (male or female) would have wanted. It's a terrible realization of a different kind of imagined equality. |
| The Handmaid's Tale - Margret Atwood: Identity | "When I'm naked I lie down on the examining table, on the sheet of chilly crackling disposable paper... It intersects me so the doctor will never see my face. He deals with a torso only." - While the narrator is treated as a body that's separate from her self much of the time, here that separation is literalized. |
| The Handmaid's Tale - Margret Atwood: Identity | "My name isn't Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it's forbidden. I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter." - Here the narrator tries to distance herself from the new name society has given her. She attempts, unsuccessfully, to convince herself that her name is separate from her identity. |
| The Handmaid's Tale - Margret Atwood: Gender Inequality | "Sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore, not officially. There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that's the law." - only women are to blame for not being able to bare children, even though people know it can be either gender. |
| The Handmaid's Tale - Margret Atwood: Handmaid's Bodies as a Machine | "She'd like me pregnant though, over and done with and out of the way, no more humiliating sweaty tangles, no more flesh triangles under her starry canopy of silver flowers." - A successful pregnancy for a Handmaid means a release, not just for her but for the household she serves. |
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