fact foreshadowing the future, Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, . . . The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others . . . they were awful without being believable. . . . they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. . . . We lived the gaps between the stories. (74)As Offred described above, the problems were obvious. The fact was that no one wanted to admit to these problems. What she says above also goes for our present society, for we too, tend to make things as though they are a reality apart from ours and cut the line that holds the two together. Things like the Compucards that got out of control, (as our credit cards could easily do the same), and the discrete way in which the government was overthrown, are actually quite feasible ideas. All these assumptions could perfectly happen in our society, not only Offred's. When people are too scared they rather save their lives then open their eyes and see what is really taking place. The difference between us is still, fortunately, the fact that we still react to some things, while what brought them down was their conformity. Nevertheless, there times that we react when something that is extremely outrageous happens, and that usually takes place when we are involved. The fact that there is only violence on the newspapers nowadays seem to me not as a way of protesting, it just makes people get more and more used and conformed to what is really happening. If we ignore what we come to believe is not so unusual, then it will probably be too late for us to regret not having done something.What the society preceding Gilead changed into, is the part of the story which I do not find so credible. It seems impossible that anyone, during any period of tim...
