The Handmaid’s Tale Night-Jezebel’s Quote Analysis
My God. Who Art in the Kingdom of. Heaven, which is within.
I wish you would tell me Your Name, the real one I mean. But You will do as well as anything.
I wish I knew what You were up to. But whatever it is, help me to get through it, please. Though maybe
it's not Your doing; I don't believe for an instant that what's going on out there is what You meant.
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The Handmaid’s Tale Night-Jezebel’s Quote Analysis
Temptation comes next. At the Center, temptation was anything much more than eating and sleeping.
Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you, Aunt Lydia used to say.
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to
know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
I think about the chandelier too much, though it's gone now. But you could use a hook, in the closet. I've
considered the possibilities. All you'd have to do, after attaching yourself, would be to lean your weight
forward and not fight.
Deliver us from evil.
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The Handmaid’s Tale Night-Jezebel’s Quote Analysis
We've given them more than we've taken away, said the Commander. Think of the trouble they had
before. Don't you remember the singles' bars, the indignity of high school blind dates? The meat market.
Don't you remember the terrible gap between the ones who could get a man easily and the ones who
couldn't? Some of them were desperate, they starved themselves thin or pumped their breasts full of
silicone, had their noses cut off. Think of the human misery.
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The Handmaid’s Tale Night-Jezebel’s Quote Analysis
You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, is what he says. We thought we could do better.
Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better?
Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.
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The Handmaid’s Tale Night-Jezebel’s Quote Analysis
I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what
you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that
first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that's how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have
known that before.
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