blog post 4/21 handmaid

A commander should be a figure head in the Gilead. Why would they do such illegal acts, like trading in the black market, obtaining illegal items like women’s magazines, and sneaking people out to party with them? What would happen if lower members of the society find out what they are doing? Would the society destabilize? Commanders should be towering figure heads and role models that display their actions with their rules. Why would commanders even bother imposing these rules if they themselves don’t follow them? Do the commanders just like to abuse their power and keep the misery of people high? One example is that even the other males in the Gilead don’t have much power or happiness. These men are called guardians, they don’t have the right to reproduce or have a choice to form partnerships. Do the commanders do illegal actions to establish or remember a pre-Gilead dream? Like for example, the commander that controls Offred has an obsession with playing scrabble, and every time that the narrator plays with him, the commander always seemed to take pleasure just playing a game.