The Handmaids Tale
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For the dinner scenes, only a row of three little kitchen lights illuminated June and Lukes faces.
Shes emerged from any final reserve and has fixed her sights on ecstatic fury as the route forward.
Is Junes righteousness a sign of her rightness?
Junes testimony itself surprised me in its vagueness.
Perhaps shes saving her ammunition for the trial.
used the blame the victim line of defense.
Did he just counteract his attorneys argument by claiming justification and also piss off hell-hath-no-fury-like-June-Osborne-scorned?
Why yes, he did.
At the first group meeting she practically wants to spit on her fellow former handmaids.
Why arent they more angry?
June cannot accept that Emily doesnt want to confront her abuser fury is the only way forward.
Sure, Emily admits after Aunt Irene/Iris hangs herself, I feel amazing.
Im glad shes dead.
Or that her takeover of the therapy group as an angry army is a virtuous move.
(As a sidenote, I struggled to understand why Moira is in charge of this group.
Shes a personal friend to two members, and not necessarily qualified as a trauma counselor.
He resisted, she moved forward anyway.
Down in Gilead, a different sort of vengeance might be in the mix.
She ends up in Lydias arms, still mistrustful but willing to listen.
But its Aunt Lydias response thats the most intriguing.
