THT Characters
THT Quotes
THT Plot
Logical Fallacies
Ms. Carina Lore
100
The name of Offred's Commander
Fred (Waterford)
100
Name the speaker:
"I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off."
Offred
100
The reason why children were so coveted in Gilead
mass infertility
100
Rushing to conclusions based on incomplete information
“I met two rude people in San Francisco, so all the people who live there must be unkind.”
hasty generalization
100
Ms. Carina's astrological sign
Scorpio
200
The color associated with Rita, Cora, and other Marthas
green
200
Name the speaker:
“‘Resettlement of the Children of Ham is continuing on schedule. Three thousand have arrived this week in National Homeland One, with another two thousand in transit.’”
Gilead newsanchor
200
The name of the club that the Commander takes Offred to
Jezebel's
200
A personal attack against an opponent’s character to discredit their argument
“I was surprised you agreed with her. She’s an extremist.”
ad hominem
200
Ms. Carina's high school
SI
300
Offred's shopping partner
Ofglen
300
Name the speaker:
“It’s an event, a small defiance of rule, so small as to be undetectable, but such moments are the rewards I hold out for myself, like candy I hoarded, as a child, at the back of a drawer. Such moments are possibilities, tiny peepholes.”
Offred
300
How Offred shares her story
Tape recorder
300
Implying that the end result of today’s actions could spiral into something more extreme
“If I give you a raise, then I have to give everyone a raise, and then the company would go bankrupt.”
slippery slope
300
Ms. Carina's three majors in college
English, Greek and Roman Studies, Education
400
The suspected real name of Offred
June
400
Name the speaker:
“There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.”
Aunt Lydia
400
Secret police of Gilead
Eyes
400
Bringing up emotionally charged issues to draw attention away from the matter at hand
“You asked me why the unemployment rate has risen again, but I’ll tell you what’s affecting this country’s morale in even worse ways than that.”
red herring
400
Ms. Carina's favorite novel by a dead white guy
The Great Gatsby
500
The Handmaid name for Janine
Ofwarren
500
Name the speaker:
"Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some."
Commander
500
The Latin phrase etched into Offred's dresser
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
500
When the argument mistakes a sequential relationship for a causal relationship
“I crammed for my psychology test and got an A, so cramming for a test really works.”
post hoc, ergo propter hoc
500
Ms. Carina's CURRENT favorite cartoon character
Woodstock
