The Scariest Character in “the Handmaid’s Tale”
Is Serena Waterford. (for the record I am going off the series and NOT the book.)
She seems to be caught up in all of this, and at times you almost feel sorry for her.
But don’t.
She went with all of this, the oppression, the kidnapping and ceremonial rape of women, forcing them to be pregnant and deliver a child only to give it to another person. Then the women are forced to move on to another home to begin the nightmare all over again.
She did this for one thing: a child.
She was willing to enslave people, send people to their doom, completely destroy a nation, tear up families... all for a baby.
A baby that is not hers at all, yet she feels like she has total claim over the baby. She was even willing to let June be raped, outside of the ceremonial time, so she can have her baby.
She’s fucking crazy.
As a person who has a child, I can tell you that while I love my son more than anything... I could not put my desire for him being here above that of millions and millions of other people.
Now that he is here, I’ll do everything I can to keep him alive. But if he wasn’t here and he was just an idea, and I had to basically tear the lives of 300 million people apart and have a poor woman be repeatedly raped to get him... yeah, I’ll take it as a sign from God that this was not meant to be.
And I say she basically let it happen because, 1) she was supportive and an integral part of all of this and 2) those who are silent in the face of oppression have taken the side of the oppressors.
Serena Waterford is fucking crazy.
