Themes and Symbols

Question 1

Gender Roles

Answer 1

More general examples:
- Luke’s complacency - he’s not concerned at the start of the Gileadean regime, subtle suggestion that good men may still have imbedded misogynistic attitudes
- Women in power like Aunt Lydia carry only cattle prods, they don’t have much power still themselves
- The Commander’s Wife Serena Joy a powerful supporter of what sounds like the AU version of the Moral Majority now finds herself trapped into the world she advocated for