Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Handmaids tale
The quote "A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze," to me reminds me of my life because as a teen your parents always give you boundries and rules. For example my whole life growing up i have had a curfew. Each year i get older and older, my durfew becomes later and later. Just llike the quote i am free to do what i want but i have to be home at a certain time. Living with rules lets you do a certain amount of things but not everything. Again like the quote the rat is free to do anything and or go wherever he or she wants to go as long as he or she is inside that maze. In the novel The Handmaids Tale Offred also has the same boundries this rat does. She has to listen to the Commander and his wife. She can't go out and do things just to have fun. Offred has to stay in her boundres and listen to the rules surrounding her and others.
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Does it get any deeper than just parents giving you a curfue. Try thinking about your limitations as a human being, which can include what you can say, do and be, and how where you go there is a different amount of limitations that can apply.
ReplyDeleteHaha....this is exactly what I wrote about! Yaaay for being rats in a maze. I'm excited to be 18....in a yearish...
ReplyDeleteYeah, but on the other hand maybe there "enslavement" is good for them. We still don't know what is on the outside. It is very possible they are living a life free of abuse, rape, corruption, death, cannibalism, and worse. The fence that blocks us from jumping off a buildig, is still a fence. The cone that keeps of from nawwing our wounds is still restricting. Sometimes boundries our for the best
ReplyDeleteI agree with this but how would you be if you were not given that curfew? are we given rules to follow for a specific reason? to mold us into what our parents of teachers want us to be? idk just something to think about
ReplyDeleteAli,
ReplyDeleteAn interesting post, and one that triggered just as interesting a response. I'm really interested to see that you and so many of your peers chafe at the restrictions place on you (like curfew) when, from a much broader perspective, all of you have so many advantages/freedoms that others in the world lack. I'm not lecturing; just interested that, no matter how large we make the maze, it still winds up feeling like a constraint.