Comments on: Handmaid’s Tale Episode 2 Explained in Detail

By: Katie Hutton

Katie Hutton — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 02:29:13 +0000

Yes. She giggles in joy at knowing that she is actually surviving and thriving; that there is a life worth leading and hope worth having. I got the idea that these were the religious nuts praying for the new world order that was coming. I’m going to have to read the book now.

By: Happy Pancake

Happy Pancake — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 01:55:45 +0000

I felt like the Scrabble game and the handshake were more of an attempt on the Commander’s part to connect to Offred as a human being outside the proscribed watchful presence of his wife, thereby making it emotionally more palatable and perhaps physically more satisfying for him to have sex with Offred. I also think that the power can corrupt, and as we often see with our own politicians, makes them feel untouchable. So, though the Commander is a true believer of Gilead, he is okay with bending a rule or two for his own purposes.

I also felt like Offred’s self-laugh when she finally got back to her room was both relief and having been treated like a person, even to this small degree, for the first time in forever. She was invited to not follow rules, to play, to look, to touch for an hour or more. So even though it put her in danger and she was on alert as she did it, it was humanizing. I think the song at the end was a comment on that. Don’t you forget about me. She was reminded of her true self.

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:29:59 +0000

In reply to Judy.

Oh good…
I thought that that was what they were doing. Glad to hear I wasn’t too off base.

Taylor

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 20:17:58 +0000

Yes, I do agree with you that the people outside the hospital were praying for the women inside to give birth to live, healthy babies.