Everything within Gilead in predetermined by sex. Although there are high-ranking women in Gilead, their titles are nonetheless determined by their gender. Aunt and Wives are how they are referred to, whereas the male Commanders, Angels, Eyes, and Guardians do not reduce individual men to their sex. Therefore, regar

This perverse and cruel regime, orchestrated by the Gilead rulers and happily carried out by an assemblage of Aunts, is of course designed to alienate the women from their contemporaries, “Friendships were suspicious, we knew it”(Pg-29); “This weeks Janine doesn’t wait for us to jeer at her. It was may fault, she says.”(Pg-115) In today’s society a women would never be blamed for something like a rape. We as a society have come to terms with the fact that it is not a women’s fault if she gets raped and those that believe so are ignorant. I think that this is the biggest difference between the Gilead society and our own. Current events and issues that occur in a place is what define it. Not the issues themselves but more the manner they are treated and the outcome of the parties involved. After examining this in both the Gilead society and my own, the differences stand out clearly and make it quiet clear that the two societies are nothing alike.

Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison.

Why did God allow such a terrible thing to happen?

dless of rank, a woman’s central feature is her gender. Even a Wife, the highest-ranking women in Gilead, is defined in relation to a man. In today’s world, a woman is not recognized dependant upon the man she is with. Throughout the past two decades women have fought to obtain equal status to mean and to prove that they are not the weaker gender, “Women's sexual attitudes and behaviors have changed drastically within the past 20 years. Much of this change can be attributed to women taking jobs outside the home and acquiring a heightened sense of personal identity.”(Janis, Samuel PhD& Janis, Cynthia. M.D ‘Women and their changing role in society’ Women’s Life. Pg-27). I feel that years ago the gender you happened to be when you were born would determine how successful you would be at a later age. This is not the case any longer. Women in a North American society have the same opportunities as men.

Offred seems to need an influential male figure in her life; a figure of power whom she can rely on. She speaks frequently of Luke- her husband in pre-Gilead times- and seems to view him in this way, pl

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