Friday, May 1, 2009
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I thought that it is pretty sad to see Ofglen gone. I don't get what happened to her. If she knew the man, did he tell the Eyes about Ofglen. Also, I kind of thought it was ironic how the man is part of the resistance. He was part of the resistance and he was trying to save these handmaids, he was trying to free them but he gets beaten up by them. It's like doing something good and getting punished for it. Also, if there is this network of resistance and if Nick was supposedly in it, which means there are a lot of things going on. They had a whole network and everything and Ofglen even said that the resistance can save someone if they are in immediate danger, well why weren't they there to save the man or to save Ofglen herself? Were they not important enough to be saved? I also wondered what happened to Nick? Did he get caught and executed also for being in sexual relation with a handmaid? What about the commander? Did he get in trouble for harboring Nick? How high up is the Commander? Who is he in this plan of the coup? If he was really high up there, then he must have been one of the people who thought women should not be allowed to read which means he completely support the regime. Why would he goes against his belief and suddenly let Offred read?
Blog post 5
well, I just want to touch on the subject of sex AGAIN. I mean, while at the club, Offred had to have sex with the commander and she REALLY didn't like it. She showed that she was really indifferent towards him and she really thought he was disgusting. She thought he was just a dirty old man. However, the first time she had sex with Nick, she liked it. She barely knew the guy but she enjoyed having sex with Nick. Although she knew the commander before and she even said she liked him under different circumstances, why is it that she liked sex with Nick and not the commander? I thought that this just makes her more of a slut. I mean, she said that she thought the commander was old and ugly and shriveled up. She only wanted to fake it with him so that he wouldn't feel bad. However, she thought Nick was great, and she thought that he could be Luke's replacement. Obviously, her real characters is shown right at this moment. Despite her being a homewrecker before, now, she betrays the man she claimed to love and have sex with another man and enjoys it. Throughout the whole book, I kind of thought that Moira is the slutty one, or at least the one that would be deemed by society as troublesome and I thought that the main character would have been a good and pure person. After reading this part however, I thought that Moira is better than Offred because she has beliefs. She understands what she wants while Offred is someone who just goes with the flow.
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