Handmaid's Tale

It’s All What You’re Used To
Offred’s life was so out of the ordinary, that as I read the book, I had to change my views on just what is ordinary. Ordinary events to one person may be totally out of the ordinary to another. What is normal or typical today would have been abnormal or atypical just a few years ago. Like the main character Offred, we too must adapt ourselves and make concessions to the new norms in our lives. In the Handmaid’s Tale, there were so many things that Offred had to get used to and perceive as being a typical part of her day. She must adapt to changes in her environment, her sexuality, sense of identity, and of lesser importance her sense of fashion. The aunts had told her “humanity is so adaptable…it’s amazing what people can get used to as long as there are few compensations”. For Offred and ourselves as well, what is at stake in our personal lives when we agree to accept the new norms without question?
Just from a physical e...