Handmaids are the only group of women who are given the rights to have children, but not for herself but for only the commander and his wife. Offred who was given the role as a handmaid 's would “watch every month for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure.” (Atwood 73). Offred feels as if her body is being used as a tool for pregnancy. She starts to believe that when she sees her menstruation cycle that she has failed to reproduce a child. Women who failed to get pregnant by a certain time could be sent to the colonies were “unwomen” were sent . The government 's law was “ give me children, or else I die” (Atwood 61). Which meant that whoever was given the role as a handmade were forced to give life to a child or take death. They didn 't have a choice in whether or not they wanted to do. So women had no control over there right, they had to go by what rights the government gave to
Handmaids are the only group of women who are given the rights to have children, but not for herself but for only the commander and his wife. Offred who was given the role as a handmaid 's would “watch every month for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure.” (Atwood 73). Offred feels as if her body is being used as a tool for pregnancy. She starts to believe that when she sees her menstruation cycle that she has failed to reproduce a child. Women who failed to get pregnant by a certain time could be sent to the colonies were “unwomen” were sent . The government 's law was “ give me children, or else I die” (Atwood 61). Which meant that whoever was given the role as a handmade were forced to give life to a child or take death. They didn 't have a choice in whether or not they wanted to do. So women had no control over there right, they had to go by what rights the government gave to