What Is The Hypocrisy In The Handmaid's Tale

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The Republic of Gilead is ostensibly founded on Christian principles. Cars and shops are named after events, places and people in the Bible and the Aunts apparently quote the Bible frequently to support their ideas. Yet the whole state is founded on hypocrisy: The biblical quotations spouted by the Aunts are twisted, misquoted or selectively incomplete, just like the cushions in Offred's room where only ‘Faith' remains and ‘Hope' and ‘Charity' (love) have been removed The new state's name presents a false idea of its values. It calls itself Gilead, after a mountain mentioned in Genesis 31:22, on which was taken an oath to let God be the judge in human affairs and disputes. But God is not the judge in the Republic of Gilead Meanwhile, the state's