"The Wall [...] the precautions are for those trying to get out." "We are still surrounded by mountains of ice." "In a solitary chamber, or rather a cell [...] I kept my workshop of filthy creation."
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Isolation - Characters
"I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?" "I have no friend, Margaret." "a wretched outcast I was." " I was now alone." - V / "am I not alone, miserably alone." - C
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Science - biomedicine
HN - "miscarriages, and genetic deformities [...] linked to the various nuclear-plant accidents." "a modern system of science [...] possessed much greater powers than the ancient." "Infamous AIDS epidemic."
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bio medicine con
"can conceive of the enticements of science."
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Social Science
"Scrabble! [...] It's as if he's offered me drugs." "Larynx, I spell. [...] This is freedom." "I win the first game, I let him win the second." "words [...] a godlike science." - C.
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Gender
"among men [...] my legs, my arms [...] were on display [...] shameful, immodest." "Men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood." "I want to be held [...] I want to be valued." "In my Elizabeth I possessed a treasure."
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Split of peers
"Econowives [...] These women are not divided into functions." "There can be no community between you and me."
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Fragility / invasivness of women
"Frailroad." "Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven." F - "I pursued nature to her hiding places."
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Dehumanisation of women / the abused
"We are two-legged wombs, that's all. Sacred vessels." "I loved to tend on her, as I should on a favourite animal." "he deals with torso only." "creature." "demon." "monster." "insect."
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Influence of Religion
"The church is a small one [...] It isn't used anymore." "But 'Paradise Lost' excited far deeper emotions. I read it [...] as a true history." "The Bible is kept locked up."
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Religion
"Blessed be the fruit." "Praise be." "a race of devils." "You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did [...] may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been."
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The Double
"she's like my own reflection, in a mirror from which I am moving away." "my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me." "a shape like mine" C - "how delinete the wretch" / V - "I passed the night wretchedl
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The Double con
"I feel her presence, my ancestress, my double." W - "I bitterly feel the want of a friend." C - "You must create a female for me."
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Identity
"My name isn't Offred, I have another name [...] it's forbidden." "I am by birth a Genevese." "I tell him my real name and feel that therefore I am known." "Who am I?"
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Identity con
"Falling in love [...] if it never happened to you [...] you would be like a creature." "You, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature." "We exchange names [...] Alma. Janine. Dolores. Moira. June."
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Identity con 2
"I never did know her real name [...] you can get lost, in a sea of name." "Ofglen, wherever she is, is no longer Ofglen."
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Front
Isolation - Characters
Back
"I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?" "I have no friend, Margaret." "a wretched outcast I was." " I was now alone." - V / "am I not alone, miserably alone." - C
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