HMT critics

Cards (13)

  • Carol Beran
    'Offred's power is in language
  • K Reshmi
    'A woman's value is determined based on her reproductive capabilities
  • Coral Ann Howell
    'Offred as a narrator reclaims her own private spaces of memory
  • Grace O'Duffy
    'Everything that happens in Gilead has happened before
  • Malak
    'In theory Gilead claims to be founded on Christian principles yet in practice lacks spiritualty
  • Coral Ann Howell
    'Gilead is a society haunted by the past
  • Gulick
    'Aunts are mouthpieces for the ideas of the patriarchal leaders of the society
  • Freibert
    'Nick serves to release Offred
  • Sam Wollaston
    'It is as relevant now as to when Atwood wrote it
  • Callaway
    'The evolution of a new form of misogyny... as women's hatred of women
  • Vevaina
    'Gilead legitimises its racist and sexist policies as having biblical precedent
  • Cavalcanti
    'The monthly rape synthesizes the institutionalized humiliation and ownership of women
  • Briscoe
    'Moira is Offred's rebel alter ego'