So I bought a house. Moved my mother in with us in her own apartment. Sold her place. Renovated our old one to ready it for rental. Got half new staff at work. Raising the tiny one. It’s been a bit since I’ve posted, but life has been hectic. Nothing like a nice relaxing read to soothe my jangled nerves, so of course I pick The Handmaid’s Tale to read (and make my coworker book club cohorts read for our first selection.) I’m a masochist. […]
Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale tells the story of Offred; a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead – a reconstructed United States. Offred witnesses the dissolution of her former way of life and the transformation of society into a totalitarian theocracy. Women are enslaved and stripped of even their most basic rights, they cannot choose who to be in a relationship with, they cannot, read, write, own property, gain employment or even hold on to their own name. Offred is a patronymic, it is a […]