{"id":331,"date":"2019-11-11T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/?p=331"},"modified":"2019-11-11T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:46:10","slug":"ch-x-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/11\/11\/ch-x-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch. X-XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This section of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">delves deeper into the changing relationship between Offred and the Commander. Offred and the Commander\u2019s relationship continues to grow and become less professional and more casual. The Commander loves to indulge Offred\u2019s questions for him as he enjoys her childlike curiosity and acts as a paternal figure in a way. Offred notes that their relationship gives her a sense of worth that she had been lacking before. She says that, \u201cto him I\u2019m no longer merely a usable body. To him I\u2019m not just a boat with no cargo, a chalice with no wine in it, an over \u2014 to be crude \u2014 minutes the bun. To him I am not merely empty.\u201d(163) Offred had previously felt she had little value to offer to society. Her worth as a human in this society was completely dependent on her ability to conceive, and without a child, she had little to offer anyone. Spending time with the Commander, someone who enjoys her company and presence, finally gives here a feeling of self-worth that she had been missing. Even their interactions in the Ceremony becomes less robotic as they begin to have a connection. These small things give Offred a small feeling of normalcy in this newly changed world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This section of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale delves deeper into the changing relationship between Offred and the Commander. Offred and the Commander\u2019s relationship continues to grow&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/11\/11\/ch-x-xi\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ch. X-XI<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}