Sonntag, 29. Juli 2018

讀中感:The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

XI and 30
the helplessness, but with compassion
the faith, but also the hopelessness

the careful subservient female Handmaid, and the potent and (so far) gentle Commander
the Commander as head of the household but with certain domains ruled by the jealous wife
crowned / made a Commander
with a human side and indeed more like a nice coward submitting to the system
crowned / made a wife and had to perform jealousy
jealousy a human side pressed by the system more like with grunt almost rebellious against the system

and all individual overpowered by the system
but what is a system but a collective
when / how does the collective transmogrify into a demonic system?

the transition was spot on, chapter 27 to 29 or 30
from the imperfect normality to the fallen world of evil ultimatum
expected but unexpected
and everybody acted late
did no one see if coming or did everyone
or had everyone just played, complicit
complacent

ruthless ultimatum
in which everyone has to be a believer to survive, but everyone is really not

the distinguishing the freedom to from the freedom from

oh dear margaret

you don't know when what's coming if you choose indifference

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