The Handmaid's Tale Key Quotes And Analysis
'Habits are hard to break' Chapter 3 ️️pun meaning dress or a repeated behaviour. The Handmaid
have to constantly wear the long red dress and carry out the same routine for example- the shopping
trips.
'Waste not want not. I am not being waste...
'Habits are hard to break' Chapter 3 ✔️✔️pun meaning dress or a repeated behaviour. The Handmaid
have to constantly wear the long red dress and carry out the same routine for example- the shopping
trips.
'Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? ✔️✔️Offred feels like she is the leftovers
being used up to avoid wasting a fertile body like hers.
'I am a reproach to her; and a necessity.' ✔️✔️Shows the lack of self-worth that the Handmaids have.
Offred is both disliked and vital for change and survival. In this context, Offred is only at Serena Joy's
house because of her fertile body with which she can give Serena Joy a child.
'Luke wasn't a doctor. Isn't.' Chapter 6 ✔️✔️Offred changes the tense from past to present because
she hopes that Luke is still alive. There is some relief in the fact that she does not know if her lover died
the day she was taken away from him and their daughter.
'Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.' Chapter 7 ✔️✔️This shows that love is an
intrinsic part of life and survival that Gilead lacks. Even though the women have sex, they do not enjoy it
but they have to do it for reproductive purposes.
'The night is mine, my own time, to do with as I will, as long as I am quiet.' Chapter 7 ✔️✔️Offred
takes advantage of the time she has to herself at night to reminisce on her past to restore some of the
memories. The night is the only thing in her life that she "owns" or has any sort of control over.
'We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance. You have to work at it.' pg 66
✔️✔️Not paying attention to something and not acknowledging something is different to not knowing
it is there or it is happening. People who 'ignore' become complacent. The Aunts ignored feminism, they
represent the anti-feminists, along with Serena Joy who represents Phyllis Schlafly in the book who was
massively opposed to feminism championing the conservative beliefs of Reagan's administration.
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