Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Handmaid's Tale: Mayday Activity Reflection

The Mayday activity was very interesting. There were high strung, intense moments in the game and people actually thought I was an Eye!
Sweet Canada, with your fluffy sweet birds! 
I for one was trying to find out for myself who the mayday rebels were, and I was sure that Sheridan was one. But, in the end, alas, I was wrong. Completely wrong! It was Jordan and Tori. Too bad I didn't get to go to Canada. I have unbelievably bad luck when it comes to the important things. If I was in this world, one day I may find a left over cake in the fridge or something, a different experience than the usual meals of eggs butter and milk (creepy when thought about) and that would be my stroke of luck. But when it comes to Canada, I'm not going, because I don't have that kind of luck. I shall wallow for a moment. Anyway, people had the audacity to think I was an Eye because apparently I was 'keeping quiet', when really, I was just trying to figure out who was who! They said maybe I was an eye, and I just got quiet, because what else do you say? If you say 'no I'm not!' they'll think you did it, and if you say nothing, they still think you did it. You can't win! But, it doesn't matter now...
The two english students circle. One senses an opening, and pounces! Little does the magnificent creature know that its companion is going for the low attack...
I'm watchin' you!
A bit of drama when a certain someone slapped another certain someone, and then some more drama, but I did not see one bit of it! I was inside being a handmaid. My reflection of the activity found that we all had zero intuition. I would have never suspected the Eyes of being Eyes, and I would have never suspected the Mayday rebels of being Mayday rebels. So, my intuition and the intuition of the rest of my classmates are practically shot. We would have no hope in the world of Gilead.
I don't really know what else to say. The thing is, there wasn't much to the activity. I didn't really want to condemn anyone, so I didn't really vote for anyone to be done away with. I don't know why I didn't. If I had it my way, I would have done a full on investigation. But seriously, how can you figure out something like that? I knew early on that we'd never figure it out, it seemed so impossible. How can you just 'decide' who did what based on reactions? It's like the Salem Witch Trials! When in doubt, condemn! And that just ain't right. But, I suppose the activity copied the direness of the situation in Gilead, so that's that.

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