'now that she's the carrier of life, she is closer to death... jealousy could get her, it's happened before'
Offred about Janine's pregnancy
[Chapter 5]
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'the Econowives do not like us'
Offred after getting spat at by the mourning Econowives
[Chapter 8]
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'it's not the husbands you have to watch out for, said Aunt Lydia, it's the Wives'
Offred quoting Aunt Lydia
[Chapter 8]
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'better never means better for everyone...It always means worse for some'
The Commander to Offred,
[Chapter 12]
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'...your hands and feet are not essential'
Offred quoting Aunt Lydia about the torture at the Red Centre
[Chapter 15]
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'a rat in a maze if free to go anywhere it likes, as long as it stays inside the maze'
Offred about her and Ofglen
[Chapter 27]
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And so it was I entered the broken world
To tract the visionary company of love, its voice
An instant in the wind [I know not whither hurled]
But not for long to hold each desperate choice.
epigraph:
Hart Crane, The Broken Tower
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'[attenuates the atmosphere of decay]
[Stage Directions; Scene 1]
romantic wash over decay
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'her appearance is incongruous to the setting'
[Stage Directions; Scene 1]
introduction to Blanche
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Elysian Fields
implications of death; 'a streetcar named desire' leads to death?
the dwelling of the dead; paradise for Zeus' favourites
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Belle Reve
'beautiful dreams'; home of the DuBois with French Huguenot ancestry
represents the dream world Blanche thrives in and the decayed Old South
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Offred about Janine's pregnancy
[Chapter 5]
Back
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'now that she's the carrier of life, she is closer to death... jealousy could get her, it's happened before'
Card 3
Front
Offred after getting spat at by the mourning Econowives
[Chapter 8]
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