Quotes From The Handmaid's Tale '

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"For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom" Pg. 10 This quote represents humiliation and human interaction. When people beg and put themselves at the feet of others it’s looked down upon and then when someone is poor but doesn't put themselves out there they are swept away and also feel as if they don't exist to the world. The human society going on in the book is full of poverty and peasants were recently emancipated during the Renaissance. This metaphor relates to the people in the story because they were literally getting swept out of May place because like Raskolnikov they probably could not afford rent.

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I think that he chose Dounia because she was so young and beautiful. Since he has so much to offer he will think that she owes him and will keep them together even if there is no real love.

"There was a sort of haughty pride and reserve about him, as though he were keeping something to himself."Pg. 100
Raskolnikov is old friends with Razumihin. Ever since the university. I can tell just by this sentence why they were both friends. They both have that” loneristic” quality. When I meet people, who armed outgoing and hospitable I think about what their home and work loves must be like. The fact that this guy was "haughty" and "reserved" tells me that there must be from a wealthy family where he learned that he is above everyone else.

"When he had happened to imagine all this beforehand, he had sometimes thought that he would be very much afraid. But he was not very much afraid now, was not afraid at all, indeed. His mind was even occupied by irrelevant matters, but by nothing for long" Pg 140
Although he says in plain text that be was of very afraid, the sentences to follow it talking about how he was occupied by irrelevant matters comes across to me as being nervous. Being scatter minded is one trait of nerves and he probably didn't think that he was afraid because he wasn't facing reality. On page 158/957 it says "It seemed like a dream

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