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caswlw · 3 years ago

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there’s little i enjoy more than dissecting books and making commentary on religious shit and being able to recognize the allusions in it like. “The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.” leading me to writing “…she sees her womanhood as a place that was beckoned to finding forgiveness and failed- therefore laying her womanhood at the altar of man.” like yeah we are going HARD for messages of faith 😤 spn is good for a lot of things but getting wow! on my paper is one of the best

#do i know a lot of the allusions r allusions bc i watched this 15 year beast? possibly #anyway this stuff is from the handmaids tale bc i’m reading it for class and my TW is on friday so wish me luck haha #i think my paper will b at the intersection of of a lot of my ideas but i have So Many #like womanhood and it’s relationship to motherhood vs men and their relationship to power/control bc women are expected to be mothers #but men r never forced to be fathers (particularly in this book but a lot can be said abt that being a more widespread idea in society)#that and like. women who choose to not be mothers/not participate in cishet society (like moira or the unwomen & other jezebels) r on the #fringes bc ppl who can’t contribute to that lifestyle must be pushed out to maintain it #and that’s commentary on how women who choose to separate themselves from motherhood (or cishet participation) are viewed as Other #which . i could take that so far #alternatively talking abt faith’s impact on gender #and how offred begins to know what her relationship to being woman is after it’s warped by religious influence #and the way that faith and the idea of god is so important in the book despite it being so Like That yk #also the white woman of it all #like the existence of offred and cora’s relationship and how the martha position feels like a mammy stereotype turned into a ‘role’#and also how the book pretends like this oppression is so novel and that both outside of the book that wow it’s a possible dystopic future #and in book the characters DESPITE being ppl who remember the Before #they don’t make the connection that women Have experienced shit like this #ur telling me that ppl can read this book and not think abt bw in slavery? especially in regard to the way that the wives have a dislike for #the handmaids during The Ceremony when it’s like. that’s not her fault tho?? just like the master’s wife getting mad at a slave having her #husband’s kids like. u do realize why right .#not to MENTION the existence of a servant like role for one of the only poc in this book other than like. the fucking tourists at the start #i just have so much to say and only 45 minutes to write an essay 😖#i don’t think i can top the kite runner one but honestly. i’m gonna try bc if i can make a hard hitting conclusion i think i’ll bag the #significance point Easily #anyway. if u read this far and have read tht what do u think. like my TW is on friday i want to bounce around some ideas #if u read this far and u Haven’t read tht i want to ask why. also i don’t recommend it completely given that it’s atwood and also bc it’s #not that fun of a read and i like to rec things that i enjoy <3 not this stuff i read just to dissect it to smithereens #i just want it to be good yk :(#notes from the prime minister #fun fact: this is tag 30 which apparently is the limit? didn’t know that until now akhdhd

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