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Hence women like the narrator who are of childbearing age and still possess "viable ovaries" have been forcibly recruited into the ranks of Handmaids. After a period of indoctrination, they are assigned to two-year tours of duty with the important men, the Commanders of the Faithful, whose wives are barren. Handmaids are slaves to their own biological possibilities and derive their identity solely from their Commanders. The narrator's new name, Offred, really identifies her owner; she belongs for the time being to a man named Fred. She explains the duties of her station: "We are for breeding purposes...
Many playwrights master technique, a fair number possess innate narrative gifts, but only a few achieve a genuine, persuasive voice. When plays are described as depicting reality, the statement cannot be taken literally: a set is recognizably a set, not a house or a tree, and speeches palpably differ from authentically aimless conversation. What makes a set seem real, what enables dialogue to stand for experience is the writer's capacity to create an alternative world, distinctively his own, and lure audiences into it. That talent is the true measure of voice, a blend of personality and vision...
...sense it is not their inability to emigrate which constitutes the cruelest injustice against these Soviet Jews. Every nation must possess control over its borders and migration policy, or the very definition of sovereignty loses cogency. The more heartless treatment of these people by the authorities comes after their petition for emigration has been refused, or "delayed indefinitely." Often the head of the family loses his job. Families are split up, individuals are "relocated" far from their homelands, and harassment from the government, both petty and serious, becomes commonplace...
...scope and diversity of Harvard's collections are unparalleled at other campuses, but many can claim excellence in specialized areas, and smaller schools often possess masterpieces, art experts...
Although such responses are predictable, they are also intensely ironic. Granted that, at first, the thought of implementing an honor code sounds threatening, its ultimate effect is flattering. The proposition rests on the key, and by all means correct, assumption that students possess the maturity to govern certain portions of their academic affairs without supervision. The establishment of a code would remove from the classroom babysitters we've by now outgrown. To reject an honor code out of hand because of its one uncomfortable, albeit necessary aspect--the responsibility of one student for another's actions--is to focus prematurely...