ENGL 246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pornography, Claustrophobia
7 Jul 2016
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In both we and the handmaid, there is a liberation aspect to sex, or the body. In both texts, the body is so tightly controlled, that it is a conduit of freeing ourselves. She begins to be more active at the end of the text for bodily sensations, like flowers and smells and what not. She later starts to speak more, very little is said in the beginning. In the beginning, she feels she has very little to exchange, but later she does. Sex used to be controlled, then it is freed. There is a sense in the beginning of claustrophobia and control. The text is a historical account of a group. It is of all the women, mostly handmaids. There is a need to identify who she is, when really it is not relevant, because she is speaking for a group. She wants to create a memory of the women she knew.
