It isn’t the entire page, it is a paragraph…
Chapter 20
It is a description of the training for Handmaids, first a jump back in time to what kinds of movies students in high school may watch in geography class. Then a jump back to the present- a group together with Aunt Helen and Aunt Lydia.
“Aunt Lydia did not show these kinds of movies.
Sometimes the movie she showed would be an old Corn film from the seventies or eighties. Women kneeling, sucking Pickles, or guns, women tied up or chained or with dog collars around their necks, women hanging from trees, or upside-down, naked, with their legs held apart, women being Rapped, beaten up, killed. Once we had to watch a woman being slowly cut to pieces, her fingers and breasts snipped off with garden shears, her stomach slit open and her intestines pulled out.”
Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid’s Tale p. 118
It is followed by a declaration as to how horrible the past was and how much better the the current state of society is- with women as Handmaids. And because the former things were done by those who were ‘Godless’.
Yeah, tough stuff. The obvious capitals and misspellings are my attempt to make the disgusting more easily swallowed. Yuk
If BK thought this paragraph was inspirational- he clearly missed the point of Atwood’s dystopian novel, to learn from societies that have gone off track so our society can Wake Up to injustices before they run amuck.
I find the odds of BK attending the Atwood lecture, and the descriptions on page 118 of this book, and the mention of a book with underlining on p 118 noted as part of evidence, given his crimes - well beyond mere coincidence.
IMO