4/15/2023 0 Comments Rules of prey book used![]() The Committee: What the Sons of Jacob call the inner circle of their government.Įconowives: Working-class women who are married to men who do not become Commanders during Gilead rule these households are not assigned Marthas (see below), and Econowives do everything.Įyes: Secret police officers who work for the Republic of Gilead they are responsible for detecting traitors and monitoring all suspicious activity in Gilead. The Ceremony: When a Handmaid is ovulating, she is invited to the Commander’s bedroom to have sex with him while lying between his wife’s legs in hopes of conceiving.Ĭolonies: Toxic areas that are cleaned by people shunned by Gilead, including Unwomen (see below).Ĭommanders: The highest-ranking men in the Gilead army the only men assigned Handmaids to conceive. It is a place where Handmaids work the fields between Ceremonies instead of serving a household-a punishment for those Gilead still wants to forcibly impregnate but deems too troublesome to keep in the dystopian society. “Blessed be the fruit”: How the Handmaids greet each other this is said to encourage fertility.īreeding colony: Also called a Magdalene colony, this is a newer invention of Gilead introduced in season 4. “Blessed are the silent”: As Offred notes, this phrase was added by an Aunt or someone more powerful to teach the Handmaids that silence and submission are valued. “Blessed are the meek”: Aunt Lydia quotes from Matthew 5:5 but eliminates the subsequent “the meek…shall inherit the earth.” Offred points out this omission while taking a bath ahead of a Ceremony with the Commander and his wife. Handmaids are present at birth to encourage labor through repeated breathing chants. ![]() One passage from her opus: “Do not mistake a woman’s meekness for weakness.”īirthmobile: A small van that transports Handmaids to a fellow Handmaid’s birthing at her Commander’s house. They are responsible for teaching the Handmaids and grooming them for their duties under the respective houses of the Commanders.Ī Woman’s Place : The book written by Serena Joy prior to Gilead detailing her conservative beliefs. ![]() The otherwise terrible 2012 slasher movie Smiley has a pretty interesting take on the concept, its central killer has a blank face that it carved features into to create its trademark grin.Angels: Considered heroes in Gilead, the high-ranking army of soldiers fights against various enemies and keeps guard of significant locations.Īunts: A class of typically older women who are “true believers” of the totalitarian ways of Gilead. Multiple horror films have used the concept as the film's primary gimmick. Tons of sci-fi series feature beings that steal the faces of others, often complete with a blank facade. Doctor Who has featured plenty of aliens that lacked some or all of their features. Stephen King's The Stand introduced Randal Flagg, a being who often appears in dreams with a black hole for a face. It's most often used to make an otherwise banal human antagonist a bit more threatening. There aren't many works of fiction that used the Blank in the way that Trumbo did. It's one of the most venomous and unpleasant pieces of cinema ever put to the screen, and it's part of what made the image of a faceless human so nightmarish. Joe lives out an indeterminate lifespan, numbed to reality by constant painkilling drugs and driven mad by the fate worse than death he must now endure. When they refuse, he requests that they kill him. He requests his superior officers put him on display at a freak show to demonstrate the horrors of war. Joe finds that he can communicate by tapping out Morse code with his head. Joe's face is atomized, and in Trumbo's own 1971 film adaptation of the work, all the audience can see of him is the featureless white box that covers his caved-in skull. He can't move, he can't perceive the world around him. Joe goes off to World War I and is hit by an artillery shell. ![]() Dalton Trumbo's 1938 anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun tells the tale of a young soldier counterintuitively named Joe. Lovecraft is far from the only voice in the Blank as a trope, but the next big step forward for the concept's use in horror is a bit more disturbing than eldritch abominations. It's a common theme, but it's not the only one. Even some depictions of Nyarlathotep depict him with a writhing tentacle where a face should go. The Night-guant is a winged dream monster with a blank slate underneath its curved horns. Hastur isn't even Lovecraft's only faceless creature. One of Hastur's many forms is a yellow-clad humanoid who bears a blank face, helpfully shrouded by a tall hood. That figure is the half-brother of Cthulhu, Hastur, AKA The Yellow King. The stranger and his featureless face became the inspiration for one of Lovecraft's iconic creatures.
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