Many characters in Margaret Atwood's fiction novel The Handmaid’s Tale break various rules. These characters consist of people high up in ranks like commanders to people low in ranks like handmaids. Even characters who you would not expect to break the rules do. For example, Serena Joy she is the commander's wife and also high in ranks but as soon as we meet Serena Joy in the novel she breaks one of Gilead's laws by smoking which is forbidden. During the novel, it reveals that breaking the rules in Gilead will lead to serious consequences. Some get away with it but those who don’t and get caught are punished. Throughout the novel many characters are affected by different type of consequences.
One of Gilead's biggest punishment is to be killed …show more content…
You should figure out some way of getting in here. You’d have three to four good years before your snatch wears out and they send you to the Boneyard. The food’s not that bad and there’s drinks and drugs if you want it, and we only work nights” (Atwood 249). Moira is explaining to Offred that it is not as bad as she thinks and I agree because the Jezebels get these privileges us like the ones in the colonies if I were Moira I’ve would have done the same thing. But this is also a punishment because what the jezebels do is have sex with commanders every night. Another horrible punishment is reading. Reading? Yes reading handmaids are not allowed to read because the regime does not want to them to become smart because then they will rebel. So at the Atwood added “Reading? No, that's only a hand cut off, on the third conviction” (Atwood 275). This shows how serious Gilead takes its policies since women can’t read if they are found reading three times they will cut one of their hands off.
Therefore, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale revealed to us that if you are caught breaking any rules in Gilead it would have led to serious consequences. This can also relate to our world if you break a law, depending on what it is you could either need to pay a fine, go to jail, or if it is truly terrible it could lead to death. The moral point is that we should always follow the law because we would not want those consequences affecting us later on. It does not matter if you are a police officer, a teacher, a student, a homeless, even the president, we all will get punished the same way if we break any
One of Gilead's biggest punishment is to be killed …show more content…
You should figure out some way of getting in here. You’d have three to four good years before your snatch wears out and they send you to the Boneyard. The food’s not that bad and there’s drinks and drugs if you want it, and we only work nights” (Atwood 249). Moira is explaining to Offred that it is not as bad as she thinks and I agree because the Jezebels get these privileges us like the ones in the colonies if I were Moira I’ve would have done the same thing. But this is also a punishment because what the jezebels do is have sex with commanders every night. Another horrible punishment is reading. Reading? Yes reading handmaids are not allowed to read because the regime does not want to them to become smart because then they will rebel. So at the Atwood added “Reading? No, that's only a hand cut off, on the third conviction” (Atwood 275). This shows how serious Gilead takes its policies since women can’t read if they are found reading three times they will cut one of their hands off.
Therefore, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale revealed to us that if you are caught breaking any rules in Gilead it would have led to serious consequences. This can also relate to our world if you break a law, depending on what it is you could either need to pay a fine, go to jail, or if it is truly terrible it could lead to death. The moral point is that we should always follow the law because we would not want those consequences affecting us later on. It does not matter if you are a police officer, a teacher, a student, a homeless, even the president, we all will get punished the same way if we break any