Blog Post #9

Pages 251-263

       I will first start by saying that I thought it was interesting that these two chapters juxtapose two different accounts of Offred having sex with someone but these two scenarios are drastically different from each other but first I will start with the similarities. The first similarity is that both are secretive and forbidden and both were set by someone else all she did was agree to them. But the similarities kind of end there except for the lightning which occurred during both. Why was the lightning included? Was it to impose a sense of doom or some other form of foreshadowing. Another similarity I noticed was that she didn't really go into detail with either act. She told us what she was thinking before but never gave us her thoughts on it during. So the differences between the two was that she was more willing and, I guess I could say, more excited with Nick but that's only natural. Speaking of natural she wasn't wearing make-up when she was with Nick and maybe that's to symbolize that she was more real when she was with Nick whereas when she was with the Commander she was covered in make-up and clothes that weren't hers and she wasn't herself.