Friday, April 24, 2009

Beneath the Surface

The most recent chapters have contained "the club" that many of the commanders and other men often frequent. The commander explains its existence by saying that you can't get rid of nature and that men always want multiple women and instead of women dressing differently as they had before, since women always wear the same thing, the men look for other women for sex besides their wives.
This strikes me as something that is wrong with puritanical or conservative society, there is no way that you can truly suppress human nature no matter how structured your religion and laws are and you can never stop people from doing what they want to to an extent. this club is a shining example that even if it may be illegal to have prostitution or adultery for that matter, you simply can't prevent people from doing it altogether short of castration or something just as drastic.
This also extends to drugs and other excises and basically, you may be able to take a horse away from water, but you can't stop it from running all the way back and drink while you aren't looking

1 comment:

  1. Vincent, these are great ideas. Given your thoughts here, what kind of overall statement do you think Atwood is making about society?

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