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The Handmaids Tale and All my Sons Quotations

Terms in this set (23)

Secrecy ( as self destructive)
'if i am caught..'
'i was made...'
'If I am caught it is to Serena Joy's tender mercies that I will be delivered.. I could become an unwoman.'

'I was made yellow in tis house because I suspected my Father and did nothing about it.'
Secrecy - denial
'what have i ...'
'your brother's alive darling.'
'What have I got to hide?'-Act one

'Your brother's alive darling because if he's dead, your father killed him... God does not let a son be killed by his own Father.'
Secrecy within past
' i must forget my secret name...'
'everything that happened...'
'I must forget about my secret name and all way's back.'-
chapter 25

'Everything that happened seems to be coming back.'- Act 1
Loss (emotional loss)
'the little girl...'
'if he's not coming back...'
'the little girl that is now dead.'

'If he's not coming back I'll kill myself... laugh, laugh at me.'
Loss of Identity
'my name isn't offred, i have another name...'
' i am a refugee...'
'i could jail...'
'they didn't ...'
'My name isn't Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses ... it's forbidden.'

'I'm a refugee from the past.'

'I could jail him if I were human anymore. But I'm like everybody else now. I'm practical.'- Act 3

'they didn't die; they killed themselves for each other.' -
Act 2
Loss of memory and time
'i know i lost ...'
'this is one thing i wasn't prepared for- the amount of uniflled...'
'chris is discovered...'
'I know I lost time. There must have been needles, pills...'

'This is one of the thing i wasn't prepared for- the amount of unfilled time, the parentheses of nothing. Time as white sound.'- chapter 13

'Chris is discovered sawing the broken off tree, leaving the stump standing alone.'-Act one
Family loyalties
'i want to feel...'
'a buisness, for ...'
'I want to feel Luke beside me.'

'A business for you!'- Act 3
Family Obligation
...
Hope within families
'give me children...'
'something she's one...'
'i believe in the resistance...'
'god does not let a son .....'
'Give me children or else I die!'- chapter 13?

'Something she's one. A tribute.' -chapter 21

'I believe in the resistance as I believe there is no light without shadow.'
-chapter 18

'God does not let a son be killed by his won Father.'- Act 2
survivors guilt
'she has ...'
'i will mourn later...'
'they didn't die, they killed...'
'She has died that I may live.'
'I will mourn later'

'They didn't die, they killed themselves for each other.' -Act 1
Guilt- Blame
'her fault, her fault...'
'what have i got...'
'i was made yellow...'
'Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison.'- Chapter 13

'What have I got to hide?'-Act 1?

'I was made yellow in this house because i suspected my father and did nothing about it.'
Guilt in relationships
'i felt i was an intruder...'
'luke wasnt a doctor...'
'larrys... youll always be .....'
'I felt I was an intruder, in a territory that ought to be hers.'

'luke wasn't a doctor, isn't.'

'Larry's lover..'
'You'll always be Larry's girl.'
Fear of losing someone important
'where is she? what have you done...'
'a business...'
'what happened to my ...'
'Where is she?' 'What have you done with her?'- beginning

'For you, a business for you!'- Act 3

'What happened to my family?'- Act 3
Fear controlling citizens
'the ..'
'the ...'
'his face is cut and bruised, ....'
'this doesn't look like a face but like an uknown vegetable...'
'The Wall'
'The Spy's'

'His face is cut and bruised, deep reddish-brown bruises; the flesh is swollen and knobby.'

'This doesn't look like a face but ike an unkown vegetable, a mangled bulb or tuber, something that's grown wrong.'
Fear of confronting the truth
'it completely possible...'
' i suspected my father and did...'
'It's completely possible he's alive.'- Act 1

'I suspected my Father and did nothing about it.'- Act 2
Fear of lies and deceit revealing themselves/ status of characters
'hes way ..., the very...'
'what could i .....'
'ive got nothing to...'
'He's way up there... The very top.'-Chapter 34

'What could I do? let them take my life away?'- Act 2
'I've got nothing to hide.'
Isolation -
new regime comes to power-
'to drive the new car, ...'
'the new car, buy the new fridge..'
Surveillance/setting
'under ...'
'there remains a ...'
'the stage is hedged on the right and left...'
'The Eye's'
'Under His eye.'
'There remains a mirror on the wall... like the eye of a fish'- Chapter 4?

'The stage is hedged on the right and left by tall, closely planted poplars which lend the yard a secluded atmosphere.'-
Act 1
Isolation
'it occurs to me...' 'i was made practical ..'
'It occurs to me that she may be a spy, a plant, set to trap me; such is the soil in which we grow.'

'I was made practical'
power
'he is violating ...'
'santity is a valuable possession, i hoard it the way...'
'they can...'
'the young ones are most dangerous, ...'
'like something hidden, some...'
custom
people once hoarded money
hit us- genesis
the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns
treasure i'll dig up one day
power
'its like ...'
'he hasn't been laid up in...'
'because if he's not coming back..'
'who is he to ruin a man's life?Everybody know's ...'
'i could jail him, i could ...'
living next door to the holy family
fifteen years
ill kill myself
joe pulled a fast one to get out of jail
jail him if i were human any more
death
'my unity with the salavagers and my complacency in the ...'
'she has died...'
'the little girl that is now..'
'there's blood lust, i want to ...'
'the young ones are often the most dangerous...'
in the death of this woman
that i may live
dead
tear, gouge rend
the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns
'well thats what war does..'
'your brothers alive...'
'they didnt die..'
'annie, we're going..'
'what was larry to you? a stone that
i had two sons, not i got one
darling because if he's dead your father killed him. god does not let a son be killed by his won father
they killed themselves for each other
to live now
fell into the water?
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