after reading atwood's, The Handmaid's Tale, it gave me this kind of weird feeling. i just didn't like it when rape was mentioned, it just made me feel hella uncomfortable.
Offred's character is what i want to dedicate this blog to. at first, she was very "resistant" at first in obeying the teachings and the lessons of the red center; she did not give herself wholly to the society of gilead, which i had mentioned in my essay we had in class yesterday. she sort of mocked the society and thought it was kind of nonsense. when she talks about her life before gilead, i feel sad. she mentions her husband luke and how she ponders if he's still alive or not, and her daughter that was taken away from her. i feel that the power of the society of gilead was too strong for her own will. she starts off a rather independent thinker and believer, and later falls into the traps of every handmaid, fear.
she has these little night meet ups with the commander and one time he had taken her out into the city for a little fun, his wife, serena joy, found out. at that moment, offred had felt the rush of fear run down her bloodstream and prayed and begged for God to help her, that she will accept anything and everything gilead wants her to. she made a complete turn-around at this moment, from being strong and an strong-willed offred, to a fearful and hysterical offred.
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