The Handmaids Tale
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How much personal freedom are you willing to sacrifice in exchange for physical proximity to your child?
Luckily for June, shes spared from the consequences of this decision by an 11th hour deus ex Tuello.
Serena, on the other hand, decides to return to the Wheelers.
Now, like Serena and Lydia, hes trying to create a softer, middler ground.
Hes offering a dirty compromise.
To June, Lawrence calls New Bethlehem a nicer autocracy, a Singapore of yore.
Here, June will be able to live comfortably with Luke and Nichole.
Shell be able to read novels and even write in a diary.
Most importantly, shell be reunited with Hannah.
But Lawrence says no can do.
In the context of Gilead … he palters, its not really that rapey of a rape.
Its just an old-fashioned arranged marriage.
Nevertheless, June and Luke are having a hard time coming to a decision about this.
Also a fair point.
So thats a point for Luke.
Luke says he and Nichole will never be enough for June unfair, so thats another point docked.
It seems we are at an impasse, and possibly a fatal stress point in June and Lukes marriage.
Lawrences dirty compromise for Serena is both more and less straightforward.
Do you have an irony deficiency?
How do you go and live in a house with a woman whos trying to steal your baby?
What shecanoffer is a little perspective.
She overthrew a country.
She has against all odds given birth to a very healthy baby.
Not once has she lacked for mental toughness.
So thats what she does.
She would go back to the Wheelers.
June threw away numerous opportunities to escape Gilead because she didnt want to leave Hannah.
Practically every June scene is interspersed with images of Hannah both in the before times and in Gilead.
But then she receives that fateful call from Tuello.
So thats one question answered.
Its been a while since weve heard a good Gorbachev reference, hasnt it?
So whatisthis classified military operation Tuellos government is a part of and does it involve Nick somehow?
Lawrence 100 percent sent that video.
