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Chapter 23 & 24
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Chapter 23 & 24
VIII:
BIRTH DAY
IX:
NIGHT
Key Facts:
THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Author : Margaret Atwood
Type Of Work : Novel
Genre : Anti-utopian (or “dystopian”) novel; science fiction; feminist political novel
ate Of First Publication · 1986
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart in Canada, Houghton Mifflin in the United States
Narrator : Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead
Setting (Time) :The not-too-distant future
SUMMARY:
Chapter 23
Chapter 23
Offred tells Cora about the child, and the Martha expresses her hope that “they” (meaning Offred) will have a child soon.
That night, Offred sneaks out of her room and meets the Commander in his office. ("Where women do not go")
Commander merely asks her to play a game of Scrabble. This is forbidden, since any kind of reading is forbidden to women. They play two games, and the game feels luxurious to Offred.
As she is about to leave, the Commander asks her for a kiss. She kisses him, and he says sadly he wanted her to kiss him “‘as if you meant it.’”
Character? Significance?
- Chapter makes me feel sorry for the Commander :( ("As if you meant it" "He was so sad.")
- Conflict between who possess more power ("I win the first game, i let him win the second.")
- Highlights importance of freedom and defines Luxury
Important Quotes:
- " You will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling yo must forgive"
- "But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power"
- "Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it"
- "I am to provide these joys for her."
- "We are for breeding purposes"
- "There's no doubt about who holds the real power"
More quotes ladz
"Where women do not go"
"Sheepish" = Showing or feeling embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence.
"It's forbidden for us, Now its dangerous. Now it's indecent. Now it's desirable"
"This is freedom. What a luxury."
FREEDOM = The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants./ the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
LUXURY = A state of great comfort or elegance, especially when involving great expense.
= In regards to the handmaids, the great expense is their lives
- Structure?
- Theme?
- Language?
- Any new insight on a character?
What do you think?
SUMMARY:
Chapter 24
Chapter 24
Offred decides she has to forget her old name and her past; she needs to live in the present and work within its rules.
The Commander’s unorthodox behavior allows her a chance to get something from him.
She remembers that underneath all of Aunt Lydia’s speeches, the real message seemed to be that men are “sex machines” and should be manipulated with sex.
Offred finds the events of the night incredibly funny. Laughter threatens to erupt, and she struggles to keep it down.
In the dark, she stumbles into the closet, where the Latin phrase nolite te bastardes carborundorum is written.
- The importance of literature and power of words
- The menacing chase between you and time
- Self-validation
- Manipulation of men
- Hysteria
Character?
Significance?
Important Quotes:
- "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
- "Time's a trap."
- "My name is Offred now, and here is where i live."
- "Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got."
- "I am thirty-three years old."
- "I have viable ovaries."
- "Men are sex machines"
- "You must learn to manipulate them, for your own good"
YOu guessed ittttt, more quotes ;P
"He was not a monster, to her" (Sounds a bit like Stella & Stanley :/)
"What i remember now, most of all, is the makeup" (!!!!!!)
"I've broken, something has cracked."
"Laughter boiling like lava in my throat."
"Red all over the cupboard."
"All I can hear now is the sound of my own heart." </3
Structure?
Theme?
Language?
Any new insight on a character?
What do you think?
- Women in Gilead are not only forbidden to vote, they are forbidden to read or write.
- In the novel, we see bits of the North American feminist movement which started in the 1960s.
- Women didn’t have many rights which is why Offred’s mother is an important idol in the novel. She fights for women’s rights.
- Women didn’t have a legal right to have some of her husband’s money or his house.
- They were expected to stay at home, cook, clean and look after the children.
- Women who did work were restricted to what jobs they could do. They could only be teachers, secretaries or nurses.
CONTEXT
GOVERNMENT?
Atwood’s novel offers a strongly feminist vision of dystopia (or is it?). She wrote it shortly after the elections of Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the UK, during a period of conservative revival in the West partly fueled by a strong, well-organized movement of religious conservatives.
PERSPECTIVE?
The Handmaid’s Tale is told from Offred’s point of view.
She tells the story in the immediate present tense but frequently shifts to past tense for flashbacks to life before Gilead and to her time in the Red Center.
Much of her narration is concerned not with events or action, but with her emotional state, which is often affected by the memories that well up from her happier past.
The novel’s tone is dark, and at times elegiac
(relating to or characteristic of an elegy = a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.)
... for the lost world before Gilead.
Consistently unhappy, Offred finds both refuge and pain in her memories. A sense of fear and paranoia also pervades the novel, since all the characters live under a ruthless, totalitarian government
TONE?
Do you guys think these chapters have any significance, compared to the rest of the chapters?
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23 : VIII BIRTHDAY
CHAPTERS
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24 : IX NIGHT
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