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Flashcards in Moira Deck (8)
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1
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moira

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she escapes to the underground but is captured by the eyes and is tortured

joins Jezebel’s as a result- it breaks her spirit

2
Q

being a whore

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Are Moira’s actions in the “underwhore” party really a promotion of women’s rights or does it feed right into the culture of porn and men’s gratification

3
Q

Offred’s attitude towards feminism

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dropping water-filled bags in college

was this Moira teaching the boys or was he simply flirting?

4
Q

women’s right

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one could fault Offred for being uninvolved in women’s rights, but Moira’s radicalism hardly seems like the solution

5
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small world

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Moira’s presence at Jezebel’s seems like a huge coincidence, but maybe Gilead is smaller than it pretends to be…

6
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Offred says

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“I’d like to say she blew up Jezebel’s, with fifty commanders inside”

she sees moira as a more powerful force than perhaps she actually is

7
Q

moira is an

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outright rebel, refusing to comply and always asserting herself

however, ends up in Jezebel’s resigned to her fate

8
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Ofglen is another rebel

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  • a less obvious one than moira and arguably more effective, although she does kill herself

however, by doing so she avoids interrogation and the defeat of capture