What are the influences of the Gilead society and how they have an impact on the woman’s lives?
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What are the influences of the Gilead society and how they have an impact on the
woman’s lives?
1) The society in Gilead: how can we say that there are totalitarian and religious
influences
Characteristics.
1.
Gilead is a theocracy, a government where church and
state are combined
2.
Hierarchy: The commander and The Wives (most privileged
social class), The Eyes, The Guardians and The Angels
(police other citizens).
The women are divided into the
categories of Aunts (control train Handmaids), Marthas
(servants), Handmaids (forced against their will to bear
children for the elite society), Econowives (working class:
can be married and have their own children), Unwoman
(work in colonies, clean up pollution).
3.
the majority of the women in that society are sterile (due
to pollution).
Handmaids are the only fertile women, and
thus those in power force them into a life of slavery.
4.
Several religious ceremonies organized: The Ceremony, The
Birthing Ceremony, Particicution, Salvaging, Prayvaganzas.
An oppressed state where people can’t say their opinion
without getting killed: Particicution: execution,
dismemberment of the opposant and make people
watching (ex: doctors who practiced illegal abortion).
1.
“I pray when I am, sitting
by the window […].
My God.
Who Art in the Kingdom of
Heaven, which is within”
chapter 30
2.
“The Marthas are not
supposed to fraternized with
us” chapter 2
“Go to the colonies, Rita
said.
They have the choice.”
Chapter 2
“The two Guardians salute
us […].
They are supposed to
show respect, because of the
nature of our service”
chapter 3
2/3.
“He could fake the tests,
report me for cancer, for
infertility, have me shipped
off to the Colonies, with the
Unwomen” chapter 11
3.
“he’s said a forbidden
word.
Sterile.
There is no
such thing as a sterile man
any more, not officially.
There are only women who
are fruitful and women who
are barren, that’s the law”
chapter 11
4.
“The three bodies hang
there, even with the white
sacks over their heads
looking curiously stretched”
chapter 42
“Now the official procession
is approaching the stage […] :
three women, one Aunt in
front, two Salvagers in their
black hoods and cloaks a
pace behind her.” Chapter 42
Religion:
1.
Offred job as Handmaid is based on the biblical precedent
of Rachel and Leah, where fertile servants can carry on
adulterous relationships to allow infertile women like the
Commander’s Wife to have families.
Women are only used
for reproduction, when they are infertile, they are seen as 1: There are only women
who are fruitful and women
who are barren, that’s the
law”
3.
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