Essay plan

Is Gilead built upon the principle of using womens bodies as political instruments?

Section 1:
Gilead is built upon rules and regulations: the handmaids are scared to break these rules because they do not want to go to the colonies where the unwomen go. So that they do not break the rules there are 'eyes' that watch what they are doing.

Section 2:
The society of Gilead allows commanders and their wives whom cannot conceive to have a child that is at least half theirs. This is quite controversial as it goes against the Bible and its sayings ' thou shall not commit adultery'.

Section 3: To stop the Handmaids from getting distracted or leaving the commander and his wife they are not allowed to read nor write, the shops have images instead of words for the name, the handmaids are seen to be worthless, they have no names they are refereed to 'as'.

Section 4: Society and the economical decline: The whole point of handmaids is to ensure that the hierarchy with in society is kept in place. Moreover the handmaids are fertile therefore they help the society by giving birth to society. They are used as a tool for economical decline not to occur.

Section 5: Moreover the Handmaids are of a lower status they all have to wear red, the society is split into different segments: The commanders, their wives, the Marthas, the handmaids and the eyes.

Section 6: The Handmaids have to do what they are told, once they have given birth to a child they move on to another family and so on and so forth. This connotes that their lives are and strict and they have a particular regime to their lives.

Section 7: The wives not only have to cope with another women sleeping with their husband for a child she has to be there and she has to watch them have sex. Moreover the whole idea of the wives being present maybe manipulating for the Handmaids.