friendships within gilead Handmaids tale by margret atwood
Gilead is a place of strict laws and harsh punishment. ... Before this take-over occurred people lived there lives as we do today with freedom and without suppression from an outside source that impedes our way of life, whereas in Gilead people are being regulated like lab mice or as they say in the book mice in a maze. Friendships, because of the weakness they expose have been done away with by the removal of communication, this removal of communication has only occurred in the lower members of this society. The Handmaids are not allowed to communicate with anyone because of the threat it poses, these women are being used, and their fertility is being taken advantage of. these women walk together at least once a day, they feel for each other they are all experiencing this misuse together, if at any point they begin to develop friendships through communication, the people in charge of this society might have to begin to worry.