So Many Ways To Die...

with all the ways in the world to perish i found it almost laughable that Atwoods society thought that their downfall was choice. "we were a scoeity dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice" ( 25). i find it amazing that even for a split second choice could be conscidered a bad thing. i never have liked being forced to do anything but this society argues that choices complicate things and makes people unhappy. they claim that choices cause discord and are the downfall of man and religion... but where is the beauty of religion without choice?

to have faith is the very center of all religion. to beleive by CHOICE, not by force. but somewhere between the bombs going off and the naziesque burning of books, all in the name of good faith and religion of course, i feel the message was lost. there are many things a person or society can die from but i am sure choice is not one of them. infact its very easy to die from lack of choice, as shown by countless ponderings by offred where she contemplates suicide. because they have taken every choice away from her she scrounges about for her only choice left.

its astounding that an entire society can suddenly and effectively become so terrified of freedom. its a hard concept for me as a young american where we literally forget how free we really are. even by writing this blog i am taking advantage of a careless freedom i have often overlooked. but i honestly think if all my freedoms were to be torn away i would die, if not physically then definitly emotionally. so it really causes me to marvel at the fact that such a rampant fear of freedom can cause an entire revelution. its almost ironic since so often revelutions are started to gain more freedom.

i see the cause behind this fear is a greed like no other. people desire to keep what they have and those on top will do almost anything to stay on top. these greedy few have found a way to manipulate people into thinking this basic violation of human rights is good for them. this happened with hitlers nazi regime. as long as everyone hated onething they were united and happy... as long as they were not the hatred. and step by step more and more became the hated until finally everything " undesirable" was banished. in atwoods case the undesirable thing was freedom.