Hand Maid's Tale

My favorite paragraph in this novel is " I'd like you to play a game of scrabble with me, the commander says. I hold myself absolutely rigid. I keep my face unmoving. So that's what's in the forbidden room! Scrabble! I want to laugh, shriek with laughter, fall off my chair. This was once the game of old women, old men, in the summers or in retirement villas, to be played when there was nothing good on television. Now of course it's something different. Now it's forbidden, for us. Now it's dangerous. Due to the extremist views that oppressed these women they aren't allowed to do anything, except raise children, go shopping, and cook. They are looked upon to give children that is all, the Handmaid's  purpose truly is despicable. Scrabble is banned, especially in this case, because it's more intimate then anything Offred or any of the other Hand Maid's have known. This is more intimate then the ceremony. Offred actually talks to the commander on a personal level. He just wanted company and that is what he received. She was able  to play a game with him, that she may or may not have won, but that wasn't the purpose. This was a moment of intimacy.

The Hand Maide's Tale

I disliked The Hand Maid's Tale completely. The author was brilliant with taking extremists views, mostly feminist and biblical views, and creating a truly terrible society, largely run by man. I felt like the women in the society were oppressed, and had absolutely any freedoms. I felt like they should have revolted against this, but no one did. This novel was a 1st person point of view so how much can we actually believe. If society was this bad wouldn't they revolt? The men had much more freedoms, and commanders could do pretty much what they wanted.

Post for the novel "We"

I enjoyed reading the destopian novel by Yevgenny Zamyatin called "We". I believed the view point of D-503 was informative and unique. He put everything, including emotions in a math perspective, and things that he couldn't explain with math frustrated him. I also found it quite humorous on how I-330 was so easily capable of manipulating D-503. If she told him to do something he would, and yet he complained about her, saying that he hates her contradicting his true emotions for her.

We- Theme

I found the lack of individuality in ''We'' quite amusing. How society can determine the worth of a single person, in the novel it states that a person is only good for the function of onestate,no one person out weighs society as a whole. My favorite line in ''We'' has to be '' I don't want the square root of -1. Take it out of me, this square root of -1. That irrational root grew in me like some alien thing, strange and terrifying, and it was eating me, and you couldn't make any sense of it or neutralize it because it was completely beyond ratio. I like this quote the most because it contradicts d-503's ways of thinking. He thinks in a logical sense only using math to solve all of his life's obstacles. Yet, math even has things that are unknown, like this square root of -1. How d-503 gets so upset because he can't explain what the true value of this is, is amusing. Like how he hated i-330 cause he had emotions and feelings for her that he just couldn't explain. He hates all concepts that are irrational.