The bishop's wife locked June in the car to prevent her from meeting her daughter. June was emotionally broken and asked angrily "What's wrong with you?!" She couldn't understand the woman in front of her, so she could only curse frantically. (I have to admit that swearing is a sign of the weak. If there is a better way, do you need to swear hard?) What's wrong with Mrs Waterford? ——Her motive is an important suspense in this play. The screenwriter told us more clearly that she used to be a woman with great academic and political ambitions. She assisted her husband all the way and promoted the success of the extreme regime. But why does she choose such a political belief? Instead of choosing other beliefs that are more free and tolerant like June and Moira? Looking back at the background setting of this film: human beings are facing the dilemma of reproduction-it is becoming more and more difficult for people to reproduce offspring, and only a very small number of women can reproduce. This ability is regarded as a scarce resource. When June met Luke, Luke was actually married. There is no clear explanation in the plot. Luke decides to be with June. Besides love, is there any other more realistic factors, such as June's pregnancy. But no matter what, Luke and June are together, they have children and form a happy family. When some women can have children and some cannot have children, a huge confrontation arises. The fertile ones pose a huge threat to the infertile ones. As long as this society is still in the hands of patriarchy/patriarchy, infertile women may be abandoned at any time. This situation is almost at stake-either women who can have children become the winner among women and gain an overwhelming advantage; or they are governed and enslaved and become a shared resource of society, successfully guaranteeing the status of women who cannot bear children. In a free society, men can leave their infertile wives at any time and switch to a fertile wife. And Mrs Waterford does not want to live in such a society, preferring to stick to his husband and keep his current status. The determination to reform society, so let's start, I guess.
Because of this, her emotional attitude towards June is very complicated and contradictory, but looking at it layer by layer, the bottom is a boundless fear. She is most afraid of being replaced. She wants to be a person who cannot be replaced and serves her husband. That's the thing wrong with her. I want to say that Mrs Waterford's "great wife's fear" is everywhere in real life, right? There are men too, right? There are many large companies and organizations who are afraid of themselves being replaced, and who are desperately serving the power and riding on others, who are afraid of others turning over.
To extend this, the Germans' ethnic cleansing of Jews was probably caused by this similar fear. Worrying about the current state of insecurity, fear of losing, unable to deal with this anxiety and fear, and then find a threat but more controllable object, projecting disgust and hatred, as if removing TA can solve the problem .
The heroine Elisabeth Moss is not a beauty in the ordinary sense. But one of the things that the show did the most right is not to be the heroine of the beauty pageant. A plain-looking female protagonist is more likely to make more audiences have a sense of enthusiasm and gain more resonance. What happened to her is likely to happen to any one of us.
Throughout the whole story, I feel that the saddest thing is not the low status of women, subject to patriarchy/male power; the most terrifying thing is not the totalitarian and extreme religion's hijacking of society and the distortion of human nature-the saddest and most terrifying thing is , What a non-thinking animal man is—it often determines a person’s beliefs and beliefs, his/her three views and political opinions, not his/her knowledge, nor is it based on his/her views on various issues and phenomena Think deeply, wait... As the saying goes: "The butt determines the head"-often a person's position determines what he/she thinks.
June is a fertile woman; Moira is a homosexual who does not participate in reproduction and reproduction; the bishop's wife is a woman who is infertile but can assist or rely on patriarchy; and "Mother Rong" Aunt Lydia is past the reproductive period, but A woman who can function as a tool of political domination. These women seem to be no different in nature, and their fate is not determined by their character. They are just placed in different positions, but they have lost their empathy, unable to empathize, and can only self-consciously and self-interestedly maintain a small amount of rights in the position of their ass.
Of course, there is still a little hope. At the end of the play, June took the lead in putting down the stone and refused to stoning. This is where empathy occurs. Today's she may be tomorrow's me. Don't let the position of the body determine my will, but let my will determine where the body stands to think and act.
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