Orleanna Price is the wife of Nathan price in the novel The Poisonwood Bible. Similar to protagonist of a handmaids tale, Orleanna Price is the slave of a man. She constantly struggles with the hardships of daily life; toting and disinfecting the family's water, scrambling to make ends meet and trying to protect her family from the myriad terrors of the bush. Orleanna uses irony to describe the early days of her marriage. As she describes them, the days when there was still room for laughter in her husband's evangelical calling, before her pregnancies embarrassed him. Orleanna relationship with Nathan is much like the commanders relationship with Offred. Orleanna has almost every meaningful position stripped from her, much like Offred. Nathan destroys Orleanna plates which was one of the few personal possessions she had left. Nathan shortly after destroying the plate says, “you were growing to fond of that plate.” This quote clearly illustrates a similarity of Gileadain ideals that the commander upholds concerning the possession of personal objects. It is evident that Nathan’s religious beliefs mean more to him then Orleanna, by ignoring her pleas to leave, and allowing one of her daughters to die. Orleanna is nearly removed of all of her rights.

In A Handmaids Tale, similarly to The Poisonwood Bible religion is used as a tool to further control the people of Gilead. Gilead is a theocracy—a government in which there is no separation between law and religion—and its vocabulary incorporates religious

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