![]() ![]() Now they, like her, live in the homes of the wealthy, going from one assignment to the next, hoping to become pregnant. She remembers her friend Moira, who escaped from the Centre, and the other women, who did not. Offred also remembers her time in the Rachel and Leah Centre, under the training of the Aunts, to become a Handmaid. Offred has seen none of them since, though she is told her daughter is happy with her new family. She can remember before, when women still had rights and were allowed to read her mother, a feminist who raised her alone her husband, who left his first wife for her her daughter, who was a toddler seven years ago when the revolution happened and the family tried to flee to Canada. The protagonist is known only as Offred - "of Fred", her current Commander. Handmaids are given to the Commanders and other high-status men of the nation, to bear children for them and their Wives. In Gilead, fertile women are rationed like everything else. Pregnancy is rare, and one in four of those children will be born with severe birth defects. Global fertility rates have plunged well below replacement levels. ![]() Everyone has a specific role to play - especially women. ![]() Money has been abolished laws are based on the state's interpretation of Christianity, and many crimes are punishable by public execution. The setting is the Republic of Gilead, a newly-established theocracy still fighting rebellion at its borders in the former United States. A 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, set 20 Minutes into the Future. ![]()
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