5/10/2023 0 Comments The hand maids tale bookIn Gilead, sex is purely functional, not for pleasure. The words that appear on the board are ripe with significance. (In the second series of the TV Serena Joy has her little finger cut off for daring to read from the Bible.) But Commander Waterford invites Offred into his study to play Scrabble and it becomes not just a game of words but a game of power. The close-ups of their faces say so much here. As in the novel and the TV series, Nault doesn’t shy away from the brutality of the scene. This is the central moment in the lives of Gilead’s Commanders, their Wives and the Handmaids. Here, Offred discovers the message scratched into the wall by her predecessor and begins to hope. This phrase has become synonymous with The Handmaid’s Tale and female resistance. Like Atwood, Nault portrays her as an older woman, where in the TV series Yvonne Strahovsky shows her as more of a contemporary of Offred’s. In their first meeting, Serena Joy is determined to show Offred who is in charge. The beds stretch as far as the eye can see as the Aunts parade between them, keeping watch over the helpless and horror-stricken new Handmaids.
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