Today in class we had talked about a wide variety of things. These being rape, abuse, slavery, infertility and the relations with the stories of Abraham, and conception of time. In class we had talked about the stories of Abraham. The one we spend the most time on was Genesis 11 the story of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar. This story covers the rape, abuse, infertility, and slavery aspect we spent the majority of class on. The briefest of summaries is, Abraham’s wife Sarah was infernal, so she made her slave Sarah conceive a baby with Abraham. This caused many things to occur. Because of these circumstances Hagar and Sarah were constantly angry with one another. However she had only begun to hate Sarah only once she was pregnant with Abrahams baby. As we discussed this may have allowed Hagar to feel more entitled as she was now baring Sarah’s husbands child. This is very similar to the show the Handmaids Tale which we had also talked talked about in class. However until now I had not realized or put all the dots together. In this case I have begun to see that the story of Abraham is what the entire show is essentially based upon and grown off of with a futuristic twist. Seeing this really made me appreciate the writers more and I can only image the amount of people who do not realize the correlation like I had previously.
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