{"id":369,"date":"2019-11-18T20:55:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T01:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/?p=369"},"modified":"2019-11-18T20:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T01:55:43","slug":"handmaids-tale-judge-with-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/11\/18\/handmaids-tale-judge-with-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Handmaid&#8217;s Tale: Judge with context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last section of Handmaid\u2019s Tale made me think that, as a society, as all as it may seem, we are never that far from some radical idea being put into place. In the back of most people\u2019s minds are thoughts about what to do if everything goes to shit. Gilead, seems to be an example of a place which existed because of its strict rules in order to preserve life in some form.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is easy to judge Gilead\u2019s oppression without taking in consideration its context in history. Despite its controversial manner of operation, this seems to be a white christian tribes way of establishing population longevity during a time when their own numbers were dwindling.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Back to Book) I wanted to highlight the glimpse of hope we get at the end of the book.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Although Offred was to be punished, their is a possibility that Nick helped her escape her surroundings to a free place. Throughout the novel we are exposed to more people existing secretly in opposition to the republic of Gilead. By the end, it becomes believable that there is an underground railroad out of such a community. This leads me to think that Atwood, despite her continuous dystopian scenery, injected an idea of human beauty and hope in any rotten implemented society.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last section of Handmaid\u2019s Tale made me think that, as a society, as all as it may seem, we are never that far from&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/11\/18\/handmaids-tale-judge-with-context\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Handmaid&#8217;s Tale: Judge with context<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","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\/369","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\/4358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}