Write an account of events from the novel from the perspective of the Commander.

You should aim to create an authentic voice for him which builds upon Atwoods presentation of character and captures of her chosen form, structure and language. Personality Stylistic Features Mathematical. Changes between past and present tense after a paragraph. Uses empirical terms in speech. Sentences, listing nouns and without Calculating. verbs. Act Utilitarianism. A string of clauses followed by a Views everything like an equation; needs sentence qualifying the clauses. to be solved. Rule of three. The Commander knocks on the door. Biblical references The knock is prescribed. Page 97 Physical description of the Commander Page 97 Acquisitive thumbs, blue eyes uncommunicative, falsely innocuous. Page 97 Organised. Page 98 The Bookmarks are in place. Still, it must be hell, to be a man, like that. It must be just fine It must be very silent. Loneliness. Voyeurism. Prisoner of his environment. Page 99 He takes his time, as if hes unconscious of us- Page 99 The Commander sits with his eyes closed for a moment, as if tired. He works long hours. He has a lot of responsibilities. Page 101 This is not recreation, even for the Commander. This is serious business. The Commander, too, is doing his duty Page 105 I want you to kiss me. From the Commander. Page 145 Its such a studied pose Page 147 Then he goes around behind the desk and sits down, slowly and to me it seems elaborately Page 147 The smile is not sinister or predatory friendly but a little distant, as if Im a kitten in a window Page 148 Its as if hes offered me drugs Page 149 Larynx = a corresponding structure in certain lower animals. Valance = a short curtain or piece of drapery that is hung from the edge of a canopy, from the frame of a bed, etc.

Write an account of events from the novel from the perspective of the Commander. You should aim to create an authentic voice for him which builds upon Atwoods presentation of character and captures of her chosen form, structure and language.

Quince = the fruit of such a tree. Zygote = the cell produced by the union of two gametes, before it undergoes cleavage. Limp = to walk with a laboured, jerky movement, as when lame. Gorge = 1. A narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, especially one through which a stream runs. 2. A small canyon. 3. A gluttonous meal. 4. Something that is swallowed; contents of the stomach. 5. An obstructing mass: an ice gorge. Men are sex machines and not much else (Voice of Aunt Lydia) Page 153 The Commander and I have an arrangement. Its not the first such arrangement in history, though the shape its taken is not the usual onePage 162 The Commander understands. He knows my situation, none better. He knows all the rules Page 162 His needs were obscure to me, and what I could perceive of them seemed to me ridiculous, laughable, like a fetish for laced-up shoes. Page 163 As a request it was opaque Page 163 But now I think his motives and desires werent obvious even to him. They had not reached the level of words Page 163 Prolix =extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy. 2. (Of a person) given to speaking or writing at great or tedious length. Quartz =