on and Julia were enemies of the party their lives were still spent doing work for the party. They would still participate in the two minute hates and would still do their jobs, which both helped the party brainwash more and more people. No one ever outwardly betrayed the party.
             In The Handmaid's Tale, the only people who are married are the Commanders. Sometimes their wife is not fertile, so the handmaid takes her place for fifteen minutes during the "rite" and conceives a child which is not hers. The Handmaids have no rights, no powers and no freedoms, and every movement they make is controlled by the government with the justification of the Bible. Offred tells about her experiences as a Handmaid in diary form, which tells us not onl
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