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In "The Handmaid's Tale," handmaids are fertile women assigned to bear children for high-ranking officials in a society where infertility is widespread. They serve as vessels for reproduction, stripped of their rights and identities, solely valued for their ability to conceive and carry a child to term. Their primary role is to produce offspring to sustain the regime's power structure by providing heirs to the ruling class.

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According to others in the society, handmaid's have one purpose, to make babies. They are vessels. That is why they are not allowed to have any superfluous objects such as lotion. The only part of their body that matters is the interior. They must be healthy to birth a child.

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