Atwood created a society, in where the people who did not respect the rules and regulation of the Gilead, were punished in a place where intelligence was once displayed by a diversity of students, were freedom and hope and was shown every day; and which would now be turned into the regimes detention center This community is implemented and control by violence, fear, and force. Doctors who once perform abortions, were executed during the era of the Republic Of Gilead. Rapist were also executed, based on the word of the bible. Aunt Lydia mentions This is evidenced when Aunt Lydia states: “The penalty for rape, as you know, is death. Deuteronomy 22: 23-29” (p.279). Individuals who are criminals in this society were hanged from the University wall, to warn the people they should follow the rules or else, they would be executed the same. The death …show more content…
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", the narrator Offred says. (Pg.32) The author wants readers to know, how religion and fear have a power to control. Throughout history, religion has always been a marker for what values and moral ideals people hold. These morals and values, if accepted by the majority of the population, eventually become law. We often use the bible to establish laws, this is obviously not separation of states. If we continue to express the laws based on the word of the bible, it will be what controls us every day. Throughout the dystopian novel, versus of the bible are shown. Offred goes to buy grocery 's in stores who have biblical names, like "Loaves and Fishes, Milk and Honey, All Flesh, Lilies"(Chp.5). The hotel where the prostitutes are kept is called Jezebel ', to implement it is a bad place; as Jezebel in the bible was a bad