• The last day of class is on the the 19th of December. This is also the due date of our reflection papers
• Essay extension, deadline due on early afternoon Friday.

The differences between The Handmaid’s Book, Movie and Hulu series.

Hulu Series:

• Somewhat close to the book
•  Contains large amount of violence and religion.
• The visuals/cinematography themselves are able to bring more emotion and feeling to a scene.
• Intro place emphasis on your typical nuclear family which is a bit of a generic big money Hollywood trope. This sort of emphasis isn’t seen in the book.
• The series is influenced by modern day ideologies. mixed race families for example like Offred’s is a good example

Movie:

• Luke is straight up killed in the first scene. He’s dead, and i mean like, dead dead. So now any sort of dillema Offred had in the book when it came to Luke potentially being alive is squashed.
• Offred runs after Luke when he is shot dead but for some reason leaves her child to wonder off
• Woman are overtly being treated as livestock. Subtlety seemed to be lost in the move (or at the very least, from what we’ve seen so far of the movie)
• The whole atmosphere of the woman who were going to be trained from bus to training facility seemed like a stifling prison
•   Scenes of importance:
  • Offred and Moria’s first meeting in the training facility (The Gym)
  • Supermarket Scene when Offred is picking oranges
  • The ceremony
  • Hospital scene where a baby is kidnapped (27:00)
  • When Offred meets the commander for the first time

Book:

• The women weren’t allowed to talk to each other in the gymnasium but they found ways to circumvent that rule without being caught.
• The first word of the book says “we” The we is supposed to be offred and the woman of Gillead.