Handmaids Tale reflection.
My feelings on the handmaids tale are of disbelief and that it would be a society I would want to change in a heartbeat. The way of life becomes so surreal and distant from anything that we would ever even dream of. The roles assigned are something that we cant really comprehend but only get an idea of in the book. This reminds me much of how we feel about the holocaust. We know it was something terrible but we were never there, we never knew the horrors that the camps with held and sadly enough we cant identify with the people who went through it all and in a hundred years it will become something foriegn and the emotional aspect of it will be forgotten and it will be welcomed only as a fact. The historical notes at the end of The Handmaids Tale already suggest this occuring, how it was facts, not feelings or people that went through what Offred did. Already few of us can name any who was a victim of the Holocaust nor can we match a face to it. It amazes me how so many people went throught the reconstruction in The Handmaids Tale and did nothing about it. It was like the past was too far to bring back. Too far to dream of revolution and start a rebellion. They do escape yes but where did they go? Where Offred and Nick a reason the society did not last? Did they go form a resistance then an army and attack and bring things back to the way things are? Well things could never be the same but maybe back to where things could and should be. These things are just questions that arose and struck me throughout the novel. But mostly the fact that in the real world this would just eventually be a small scar on the face of history left an impact.