AQA A-level English literature critics quotes
Gulick (Mouthpieces) - HT (about the aunts) - correct answer "Mouthpieces for the ideas of the
patriarchal leaders of this society"
Goldplatt (subjection) - HT - correct answer "the work that the women do conspires to maintain the
subjection of their own kind"
Kouhestani (admonish) - HT - correct answer (comment on Atwood's motive for publishing the text)
"To admonish the reader and make them think about all the catastrophes in their society."
Callaway (solidarity) -HT - correct answer "The Gilead takeover can be read as stemming, in part, from
women's lack of solidarity in pre-Gilead culture and society."
Calloway (Misogyny) - HT - correct answer "The evolution of a new form of misogyny, not as we usually
think of it, as men's hatred for women, but as women's hatred for women"
Clist (Interrogates) - HT - correct answer "Offred interrogates, wilfully misunderstands and plays with
Gilead trite message in a way that shows up their inadequacy"
Briscoe (rebel) - HT - correct answer "Moira is Offreds rebel alter ego"
Freibert (Satisfaction) - HT - correct answer "Nick serves as a release for Offred. Through her friendship
with Nick she even discovers satisfaction with her life."
McBratney (Sequenced) - SH - correct answer " The way in which the poems have been sequenced also
gives the collection coherence, even if this is not obvious at first"
Calcutt (Lurid) - SH - correct answer "His use of lyrical language in a dramatic context is both lurid and
gentle - both human and quiet"
Borton (Instability) - SH - correct answer "Writer who is confident in his own raw emotion, confident
even in the instability of the image"
Gulick (Mouthpieces) - HT (about the aunts) - correct answer "Mouthpieces for the ideas of the
patriarchal leaders of this society"
Goldplatt (subjection) - HT - correct answer "the work that the women do conspires to maintain the
subjection of their own kind"
Kouhestani (admonish) - HT - correct answer (comment on Atwood's motive for publishing the text)
"To admonish the reader and make them think about all the catastrophes in their society."
Callaway (solidarity) -HT - correct answer "The Gilead takeover can be read as stemming, in part, from
women's lack of solidarity in pre-Gilead culture and society."
Calloway (Misogyny) - HT - correct answer "The evolution of a new form of misogyny, not as we usually
think of it, as men's hatred for women, but as women's hatred for women"
Clist (Interrogates) - HT - correct answer "Offred interrogates, wilfully misunderstands and plays with
Gilead trite message in a way that shows up their inadequacy"
Briscoe (rebel) - HT - correct answer "Moira is Offreds rebel alter ego"
Freibert (Satisfaction) - HT - correct answer "Nick serves as a release for Offred. Through her friendship
with Nick she even discovers satisfaction with her life."
McBratney (Sequenced) - SH - correct answer " The way in which the poems have been sequenced also
gives the collection coherence, even if this is not obvious at first"
Calcutt (Lurid) - SH - correct answer "His use of lyrical language in a dramatic context is both lurid and
gentle - both human and quiet"
Borton (Instability) - SH - correct answer "Writer who is confident in his own raw emotion, confident
even in the instability of the image"
