Response to Part 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale

     In the part 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale, the narrator Offred described the process of Janine’s pregnancy and childbirth in detail. In this part, Offred began to have doubts about her status and start thinking. She recalls her memory of content that in school the Martha brainwashed to all women. When they saw some propaganda film, Offred are anxious and doubted, because she fears the way in video that woman was treated so cruelly, but other women believe that it is right and normal. I think at this point she gradually awake her mind. On the one hand it is the effect of traditional thought and the reality which people believe the importance of fertility; Thus, when she had just experienced Janine’s birth process, the real experience made her uneasy to her own thoughts which different from social main sense. On the other hand, her subconsciously refute some improper ideas so her thought contradicted traditional education. In the case of this contradiction, she deepens her observations and reflections of her life; it will be an important beginning of her self-awareness.