This video is the reason why I chose to pick up The Handmaid's Tale. It conveys the despair and contemplation that Offred, the main character endured during her trials as a biological manufacturer, in other words, as a Handmaid. It also alludes to various key settings, which include the Wall (a public demonstration of the consequences of dissenting), the Border (revealed when Offred recounts her memories of a failed escape with her husband, Luke, and her daughter, the Center (where cattle-prod-wearing "Aunts" instituted in the Handmaids the values of viability, the evil of men, and trained them in the obligation of copulation), Women's Prayvaganza (the supposed showing of female solidarity against the evil acts against the state's values hanging and beating), and the hushed chats with Moira, her friend, in the bathroom. Most of these settings are mentioned in the pages listed horizontally above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-c80TeoonM
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