The Wall in the Handmaid's Tale is built right next to the church where they are both as old as a hundred years or more. The wall has sentries that will rip through anyone that tries to climb over and barbed wire on top if anyone even gets close. However, there are bodies hanging on the wall by their necks and their hands tied behind them. Atwood writes, “Sometimes, they’ll be there for days, until there’s a new batch, so as many people as possible will have the chance to see them” (Atwood 32) Atwood is explaining that the people who are in charge are extremely brutal and will hang anyone and everyone. The purpose of the wall is to be there as a sort of scare tactic. The days that the narrator visits the wall there are doctors hanging. Atwood
