• After Offred describes the collapse of the government, she talks about how her boss at the library, told them he “[had] to let [her] go…[he] does not want trouble” (Atwood 221).
• The boss acted just like how Offred does towards the Commander, by following the rules to save his life.
• One of the reasons Gilead succeeded was because of the selfishness and cowardliness of human nature.
• In connection, I was once in a scenario where I myself was a coward and selfish. One time I was in grade 6, I accidently broke one of my teacher’s personal belongings, a shark toy, and I didn’t want to confront my self because I didn’t want to get in trouble. After, my teacher realized it was broken he asked everyone in the class who broke his toy, but no
