Be one of the characters
Offred
This is my
life now. I am a handmaid. Gilead is the place where I eat, sleep, and breathe.
But Gilead is not the place I live. I am forced to give myself to the
Commander. My body, my name, my purpose, it belongs to him. So who am I?
I’m a lost
soul. A miserable soul, torn apart. My husband and daughter have been taken away
from me. I can no longer feel. Love is nonexistent in this world.
This new way; it was supposed to
make everything better. The world was supposed to be better. But the values of
Gilead are sacrilege. The ways of this world take the emotion out of life.
Let me ask
you, what is life without feeling? What is life without emotion? It nothing. I
no longer have a life. I go through the motions, waiting for the day to be
over. To the future: don’t take away the emotion, or destroy relationships.
These things are what make life worth living.
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