Contrast The Relationship Between Harriet And Rachel Block

However, even in a situation where there is nowhere to run both Harriet and Rachel control their master’s sexual advances towards them. In order to have their way with them, Harriet and Rachel forced their masters to the extreme circumstance in order to protect their own sexual vulnerability. Block writes, “Rather have sex in the bedroom while the other children slept and his wife was away, Rachel forced William to order her into a dark field, thereby disrupting his original attempts at a seamless consensual interaction.” Rachel refused to let the sexual encounter between her and William be regarded as consensual, so she forced him to use tactics that would show that the relationship was not consensual. In Harriet’s case, she used the stereotypical