“They will accept their duties with willing hearts.
She did not say: Because they will have no memories, of any other way.
She said: Because they won’t want things they can’t have"(117 ).
They are the transitional generation. If this society can make it past their lifetime and into their children’s then they will not know any better and will think that this is just how life is. “…they won’t want things that they can’t have”(117). If they are not given the ideas and thoughts of another life, then how will they ever be able to want these things? That is what the thoughts of those in control is. However, people only want what they do not have. This is proved multiple times through the thoughts of Offred.
Often times, Offred wants to steal things from around the house. Most of these things are not even useful or helpful, but she says that she just wants to take them because they are things she is not allowed to have.
A society can not last if it based on keeping people in the dark and not allowing them to know of the past. People will naturally want to be free and to have more. Though an entire society can be physically contained within walls, a person's curiosity and desires can not be bound.
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