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Summary Simple and explained quotes on The Handmaid's Tale for IEB grade 11 and 12

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The document provides 50 impactful quotes from The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, that are easy and quick to learn. Each quote has been explained briefly and includes who said the quote as well as the chapter it is found in. Each quote also has been highlighted to fall under a key theme. Plea...

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“Thinking can hurt your chances” - Offred
➔ Chapter 2
➔ Thinking is Offred’s form of rebellion
➔ It is also dangerous because when you think you get hope


“I am alive, I live and breath” - Offred
➔ Chapter 2
➔ She is still alive → her goal


“They are to keep us from seeing, but also being seen” - Offred
➔ Chapter 2
➔ Represents the wings that they have to wear
➔ Outstrips them of their identity → only seen for their clothing & hence being
represented as Handmaids


“Blessed be the fruit” & “May the lord be open” - Form of greeting in Gilead
➔ Structured nature of Gilead


“The truth is that she is my spy, as I am hers” - Offred
➔ Chapter 4
➔ Referring to Ofglen
➔ Indicator of the little trust 7 faith between characters


“A small defiance of rules” - Offred
➔ Chapter 4
➔ Small act of defiance empowers Offred → longs for some form of power
➔ Highlights the powerlessness of women in society


“Such freedom seems almost weightless” - Offred
➔ Chapter 5
➔ Longs for the freedom she had → having a family and home
➔ Longs for the freedom she had with her body → her body has now been
objectified by men

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“We were a society dying of too much choice” - Aunt Lydia
➔ Chapter 5
➔ Highlights how Aunts try to brainwash them
➔ Having freedom & choice is what causes destruction → according to Gilead


“We have learned to see the world gasps” - Handmaids
➔ Chapter 6
➔ Handmaids are restricted with the view of the world because of the bonnets
they have to wear
➔ Symbolizes that they are restricted women because they are used for their
bodies
➔ Restricted as their identities are taken away


“It’s a beautiful day Mayday” - Ofglen
➔ Chapter 8
➔ Ofglen tries to signal Offred about the resistance


“It’s not the husbands you have to watch out for, it’s the wives” - Offred
➔ Chapter 8
➔ Shows the loss of sisterhood & violence between women
➔ Women were divided into to weaken them & hence they couldn’t stand up
together against the regime


“In this house we all envy each other over something” - Offred
➔ Chapter 8
➔ Wives envy Handmaids (they can have children)
➔ Handmaids the wives (wives are higher ranked0
➔ Econowives the handmaids (they can have children)
➔ Guardians the commanders (Commanders are highest ranked)


“Sterile” - About the commanders
➔ Chapter 11
➔ The word has been denied→ Patriarchal society
➔ Womens fault if men can’t have children (men are not seen as the problem)

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