The handmaids tale

Question 1

Power:

Answer 1

The hierarchy and the patriarchy established within the novel. Men holding ultimate power but not all the time and the idea of women using their power over other women and even with men in terms of their femininity.
Gilead using their power to scare and indoctrinate people into their regime through threat and death and the commanders have ultimate power.

Question 2

Identity

Answer 2

The handmaids identity’s, specifically Offred’s becoming estranged and they become uncomfortable and estranged from their own bodies and who they are.