This is an affidavit to be completed after every Ceremony each month to verify that both the Commander and his handmaid (Offred) had participated in the act of procreating. This document shows support for Gilead as a society by highlighting one of its most crucial statutes -- the Ceremony. As Gilead was set up in response to the crisis caused by dramatically decreasing birth rates, its entire structure centres around control of reproduction. By reducing them to their wombs and a status of fertility, this subjugation renders women sub-human. This affidavit also deprives women of their individuality in order to make them docile carriers of the next generation. The use of language is also pertinent in the Republic of Gilead to diminish their status in society, naming women after their gender roles such as Wives, Handmaids, Marthas, and Unwomen etc. Women are then reduced to their fertility status, thus being oppressed and forced to conform to societal norms.

 Despite representing an alternative to the meek subservience and acceptance of one’s fate most Handmaids seem to adopt, she ended up recaptured and working as a prostitute at Jezebel’s. Her fighting spirit appeared broken and resigned to her fate. To Offred, Moira has lost what Offred so valued in her -- “gallantry, swashbuckling, heroism, single-handed combat”. She has not what Offred wished for her, “something daring and spectacular, some outrage, something that would befit her”. 

Herence, I want to develop her story different from the original by continuing her story after her successful escape attempt from the Red Centre -- where she goes on to cross the borders of Gilead and seeks refuge the neighbouring country of Mexico. This represents the possibilities of a better future that anyone, if determined enough, can enjoy as long as one does not give up fighting.