I cannot believe Offred gets so use to the society of Gilead that she feels that she doesn’t care about what Ofglen has to whisper. It’s all because of Nick. She seems to be falling in love or something like that. She even starts to forget how Luke looked like. Ofglen sounded like she had something very important to tell Offred. Since Ofglen knew Offred was seeing her Commander, she wanted Offred to search through the Commander’s desk to see what the Commander really does and who he is.
I think the whole salvaging thing is just horrific because it kills the handmaids’ hopes of escaping, or anyone else’s hopes of escaping. It’s also done in front of wives’ daughters, which may be scarred for life, watching someone getting hanged. They even killed a wife, probably because she tried to kill a handmaid. Then there’s a Particicution, which is like an execution but with more than one killer. In the Particicution, a Guardian that smells like excrement is beaten to death. I didn’t expect Ofglen to be the first one to bash the rapist Guardian in the head. She then claims that she wanted to put him out of his misery. That Guardian was part of the Underground path but he raped a handmade while she was pregnant. The baby was killed. Since babies are so important to Gilead, he disgusted the Handmaids. The weird part was that although the man was probably drunk, he tried to say that he didn’t do it. He probably didn’t and was possibly used as a scapegoat to reinforce the Handmaids’ obedience of not escaping and not letting themselves get raped.
Offred was so indifferent towards Ofglen that Ofglen hanged herself. She probably felt guilt of kicking the Guardian. She killed herself before a van came and got her. The new Ofglen doe not seem rebellious enough to be the original Ofglen. Now what will Offred do after she has lost her rebellious friend? Will she ever want to escape? I think she will because she will feel so guilty of “cheating” on Luke that she will go out and try to find her daughter or Luke. I will post what I find out on the next post. Until then!
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I absolutely agree that Offred is falling in love with Nick and that she is forgetting about her old life with Nick and her daughter. She seems to have given up on finding her daughter as she realizes that she probably won't even remember her now that she's grown up in a new family. She feels security when she's with Nick, and I think that's what she finds attractive. Love is blind. Apparently so since she no longer gives a care for the rest of the world now that she has Nick. As for searching the Commander's desk, I would too if i were a handmaid because i would be curious to know what the world has turned into and why. The Particicution (participate + execution probably) sounded really bad and i guess Ofglen wanted to "put him out of his misery" because he would have been tortured much worse by the other handmaids if she did not knock him out fast. I don't think Ofglen hanged herself just because Offred was indifferent to her though. I still question whether the black van was really sent by the Eyes or if it was a fake sent by the underground society that protects Handmaids in resistance.
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