Welcome to my motivational analysis of June from the T.V. series The Handmaid's Tale. June, the main character of the series, battles not only with her everyday environment and the government, but also with her physical and psychological freedom in the totalitarian society of Gilead. With every episode, June is forced to adapt to living as a handmaid, whose only need in the society of Gilead is to be ritually raped by the man who owns her, while his wife assists in act. In this dystopian world where fertility rates have plummeted due to pollution and STD's, the religious society Gilead believes that women who are fertile, are only needed to bear children. June, along with many other women who tried to escape the grasp of Gilead militia, when the Gilead government rose to power after a civil war, were captured and assigned to a hierarchical household. The children of those women were sent to live with "new" families never to return to their mothers or leave Gilead.
As each episode and season continues, we see June, handmaids, Marthas ( infertile women who were captured and are forced to cook and clean), and some unexpected Gilead doctors and government officials, devise plans and tactics to escape and overcome the Gilead totalitarianism, with June as their leader. Triumphing at times and failing at others, June's efforts to rescue her daughter and others who have been captured, reveals a realistic and dramatic development of June's character, which is why I chose June for my character analysis.
Over the course of this semester, I will explore and analyze June's motivation and emotion for why and how she comes to be a maverick among the Gilead government.
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