Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Handmaid's Tale
As humans, do we value survival more or morals? Did Offred sacrifice her morals as a feminist in continuing to see the Commander? Is it necessary to turn against or change our morals in order to survive and get ahead, possibly to a place where we'll be in the position to instill our morals? How can the Commanders believe that Gilead will succeed, when they recognize that all humans need emotion and variety, and they themselves give into temptation by going to the gentleman's club, of sorts? Will the girls who are born into this lifestyle truly be able to endure it, as they say, because they know nothing else? Will they not see injustice in it, and fight against it, as our ancestors did, for suffrage and everything that's come after it?
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