I said out loud at one point, “I would be dead in the first chapter.” Everyone is found out and as soon as the gift of my not being able to give Gilead another little Angel or Guard or Commander or Wife is evident on top of the fact that I flit in relationships between genders, and I tend to speak my mind, my presence would not be tolerated. While reading the book, the pain inflicted is greater.
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I watch the series and I yell, scream, and want to kick some of the aggressors. Reading the book versus watching the series are two totally different experiences. With our “flippant mouths” and our privileged ways of living in this near-Dystopian-society, on The Wall, is where we’d surely be placed in Gilead.Īfter reading The Handmaid’s Tale, my thoughts ran rampant.
The Powerhouse and I go back and forth on the things that we know we couldn’t see ourselves doing while watching the series.Ī thrashing event here, a hanging there, a woman beaten for being a “gender traitor,” a Handmaid passed on from house to house or destroyed if she cannot fulfill her duties of producing a child for a Commander and his Wife. There are hierarchies within hierarchies and distinguishable sects among the women and men of Gilead. The fictional tale of the ever-evolving Dystopia depicts both men and women in ways that I find unspeakable. If you are like me and you had not been introduced to Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in grade school or college, reading this book could lend some undeniable feelings of extreme fear without ceasing.
Having watched all three seasons of the Hulu series and now patiently waiting for the fourth, I wanted to read the books, both of them. As Christmas gifts to me, The Powerhouse purchased The Handmaid’s Tale, (The Graphic Novel) and The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.