The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes:
● "My name isn't Offred. I have another name but it's forbidden now"
● "We are merely two legged wombs, that's all, sacred vessels and ambulatory chalices"
● "It's my fault, this waste of her time. Not mine, but my body's, if there is a difference."
● ''they were removed and resettled into national homelands''
Context:
● Pol Pot's aim was to increase population from 8 million to 20 million; carried out
mass forced marriages and pregnancies where random men and women were to be
wed
● Serena Joy is based on anti-feminist, conservative activist, 'Phyllis Schlafly" - she
opposed the 'Equal Rights Amendment' because she thought it attacked traditional
gender roles
● Book comparison - lack of identity can be found in Zamyatin’s 1925 dystopian, ‘We’
in which people have numbers instead of names to create the illusion of equality
● Alternative interpretation - FGM in show to highlight the idea that women should be
pregnant out of duty instead of pleasure
● Literature Critic, Jessie Givner - "the desire of the regime to remove names is as
strong as the desire to remove faces
F451 Quotes:
● "We must all be alike.”
● “everyone made equal.”
● “Each man the image of every other”
Context:
● Joseph McCarthy and his mccarthyism: artists were suspected of communism and
individuality was subsequently frowned upon - journalists, Horace Davis and
Nathan Aleskovsky
● Hatred for foreigners/others may’ve been inspired by xenophobia of east asians
due to Pearl Harbour
● Alternative interpretation - 1967 Truffault’s film, Julie Christie plays both Linda
and Clarisse to show that identity comes from free will
● Critic - David Cochran, “Bradbury has penned a critique of mass culture”
● "My name isn't Offred. I have another name but it's forbidden now"
● "We are merely two legged wombs, that's all, sacred vessels and ambulatory chalices"
● "It's my fault, this waste of her time. Not mine, but my body's, if there is a difference."
● ''they were removed and resettled into national homelands''
Context:
● Pol Pot's aim was to increase population from 8 million to 20 million; carried out
mass forced marriages and pregnancies where random men and women were to be
wed
● Serena Joy is based on anti-feminist, conservative activist, 'Phyllis Schlafly" - she
opposed the 'Equal Rights Amendment' because she thought it attacked traditional
gender roles
● Book comparison - lack of identity can be found in Zamyatin’s 1925 dystopian, ‘We’
in which people have numbers instead of names to create the illusion of equality
● Alternative interpretation - FGM in show to highlight the idea that women should be
pregnant out of duty instead of pleasure
● Literature Critic, Jessie Givner - "the desire of the regime to remove names is as
strong as the desire to remove faces
F451 Quotes:
● "We must all be alike.”
● “everyone made equal.”
● “Each man the image of every other”
Context:
● Joseph McCarthy and his mccarthyism: artists were suspected of communism and
individuality was subsequently frowned upon - journalists, Horace Davis and
Nathan Aleskovsky
● Hatred for foreigners/others may’ve been inspired by xenophobia of east asians
due to Pearl Harbour
● Alternative interpretation - 1967 Truffault’s film, Julie Christie plays both Linda
and Clarisse to show that identity comes from free will
● Critic - David Cochran, “Bradbury has penned a critique of mass culture”
