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- - - - I ought to have done that with Luke, paid more attention, to the details, the moles and scars, the singular creases; I didn't and he's fading. Day by day, night by night he recedes, and I become more faithless. (40.15)
        
        Intimate details, love as sustaining, comparative "more and more faithless", not completly faithless, sustaining in a world without "faith"
      - "its the message that keeps me alive, I believe in the message" - love and intimade understanding and absolution is sustaining
    - - The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peaceful home. Her sympathy was ours; her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celestial eyes, were ever there to bless and animate us. She was the living spirit of love to soften and attract; I might have become sullen in my study, rough through the ardour of my nature, but that she was there to subdue me to a semblance of her own gentleness
        
        Victor and Elizibeth - "more than sister", exess of love born from being similar in that they are of the same kind
        
        Holy, heavenly, sanctity of love
        
        Parents : so love/ careing backstory
  - - - "Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from, and all the people I love are dead or else where"
      - without luke, she's untetherd, romance becomes about the feeling instead of hte person - makes it something she'll do with "someone", noone in particular
      - Offred is able to manipulate the commander's wants for romance "and he wants alright, especially after a few drinks" to get hand cream and to fins out "everything" the commander's desire for intimacy puts both of them at risk "It is not permitted" --- I didn't want to sound begging but I wanted what I could get
      - We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.
        
        Hunger, base desire, longing for romance has become a pain, as well as a linked with sex - allusion to ROmeo and juliet incraes romance, as well as threat and violence, foreshadowing the danger Offred will come to accept to be 'loved"
    - - The Monster's desire for a companion makes him miserable and forces him into situations where he hurts himself and others If, therefore, I could seize him and educate him as my companion and friend, I should not be so desolate in this peopled earth.
        “Urged by this impulse, I seized on the boy as he passed and drew him towards me. ... with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet"
      - Rejectio of all other forms of love cause the monster to put all of his eggs in the "romantic love" basket
        “You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.
    - - becomes a desire for the creature too
      - Phillia, Storge, Even mania
      - Handmaidens wives: romance and marrage used to become a controlling thing instead of loving / coping mechanism
  - - - The ambiguous ending confirms it "trust me", no clue if it ends well
      - offred will do anything for self preservation "I'll obliderate myseld,...I;ll give up nick", "I resign my body freely to the use of others. They can do what they like with me, I am abject" - No genuine feeling means romance cannot exist
      - Atwood's comment on the role of men/ women relationships, power imbalance making romance impossible -- 1980's radical feneinism
    - - The monster is rejected by absolutely everyone because of his appearance, and their self preservation.
        
        chance at connection and romance destroyed by victor's selfish actions
        -The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew.
        
        -Frame natrrative sets victor's accounts of doing it for the "greater good" questionable
      - ThenVictor - unable to maintin romance because of his selfishness "I'll be with you on your wedding night" - selfishness cannot understand