Identity is meant to give weight onto whom people are and what purpose they serve in life, and in many religions the realization of self and the exploration beyond it is life’s purpose. But ‘individual choice’ and identity in conservative societies can be determined from birth. Atwood defines anarchy in the context of her work as having “too much choice” (1986, p. 25). During the “ceremony” Offred describes that “[t]here wasn't a lot of choice but there was some” and that Offred “chose”(Atwood, 1986, p. 94) to be a reproductive object. It seems then that Offred and the handmaidens have ‘made’ their fate and have prescribed to the society’s reproductive desires and agreed to their treatment. But within the same section Moira’s escape is described
