the handmaid's tale qoutes

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'Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.'
This quotation is from the end of Chapter 6. Offred and Ofglen are looking at the bodies of people who have been hanged. it horrifies Offred, but she strains to push aside her repugnance and substitute an emotional “blankness.” Aunt Lydia’s statement refl
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'I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.'
the end of Chapter 7, reflects the connection between Offred’s story, her readers, her lost family, and her inner state. For Offred, the act of telling her story becomes a rebellion against her society. Gilead seeks to silence women, but Offred speaks out
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' I have control over the ending.'
Offred’s creation of a narrative gives her hope for the future, a sense that “there will be an ending . . . and real life will come after it.” She can hope that someone will hear her story, or that she will tell it to Luke someday. Offred has found the on
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'I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation. Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red wi
Chapter 13, when Offred sits in the bath, naked, and contrasts the way she used to think about her body to the way she thinks about it now. Before, her body was an instrument, an extension of her self; now, her self no longer matters, and her body is only
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'The problem wasn’t only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There was nothing for them anymore . . . I’m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex was too easy . . . You know what they were complaining about the
Chapter 32, recounts the Commander’s attempt to explain to Offred the reasons behind the foundation of Gilead. His comments are ambiguous, they are the closest thing to a justification for the horror of Gilead that any character offers. e suggests that f
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'My name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden.'
In Gilead, a Handmaid’s name derives from the name of the man whom they serve, easily changeable and anonymous. Offred tries to downplay the loss of her name but instead realizes a name holds more meaning than a simple telephone number. In taking away her
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'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.'
When Offred goes to the doctor for her monthly checkup, the doctor offers to try to impregnate her, explaining that most men like the Commander are sterile. Responsibility for failure of a couple to conceive officially falls on the woman regardless of the
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'There is more than one kind of freedom ... Freedom to and freedom from. '
Aunt Lydia suggests that these two kinds of freedom are exclusive. While the women of Gilead do not have the freedom to love, marry, work, or procreate as they choose, they are free from obscenities, catcalls, and violence. Aunt Lydia suggests there is a
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'Serena joy grips my hands as if it is she, not i, who's being ******'
'the juice of the commander runs down my leg'
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the end of Chapter 7, reflects the connection between Offred’s story, her readers, her lost family, and her inner state. For Offred, the act of telling her story becomes a rebellion against her society. Gilead seeks to silence women, but Offred speaks out

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'I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.'

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Offred’s creation of a narrative gives her hope for the future, a sense that “there will be an ending . . . and real life will come after it.” She can hope that someone will hear her story, or that she will tell it to Luke someday. Offred has found the on

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Chapter 13, when Offred sits in the bath, naked, and contrasts the way she used to think about her body to the way she thinks about it now. Before, her body was an instrument, an extension of her self; now, her self no longer matters, and her body is only

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Chapter 32, recounts the Commander’s attempt to explain to Offred the reasons behind the foundation of Gilead. His comments are ambiguous, they are the closest thing to a justification for the horror of Gilead that any character offers. e suggests that f

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