Assertion: handmaid | /r/HasProperty | fertile women
Facets:
value: basically
type: DEGREE
value: in gilead
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Handmaids: Fertile women who are forced to serve under the Wives and Commanders by carrying a child.
text: Handmaid: A fertile woman who is assigned to a Commander and his Wife for two years to help the couple conceive.
text: As the aunts make clear, the “ritual” is only performed once a month on days when the handmaid is fertile—and the only reason they don’t recommend artificial insemination is because there is no biblical precedent for it.
text: Play slideshow Hulu 1 of 18 Offred is a Handmaid, one of the few fertile women in the oppressive Republic of Gilead
text: Handmaids: Fertile women whose survival is dependent on bearing the children of Gilead’s leadership.
text: Ripped from their previous lives by the Eyes, members of the government watch group, the handmaids are fertile women assigned to the households of the elite Wives and Commanders.
text: The Handmaids are fertile women, accused to have committed sexual crimes and whose purpose is only to have babies.
text: Handmaids are fertile women who are given to homes of the elite and are forced to have sex with the men of the family to carry on their bloodlines.
text: In Gilead, Handmaids are fertile women, who are supposed to be impregnated by Commanders or Angels whose Wives are infertile, thus providing them with children.
text: Each Commander household is assigned a Handmaid, a fertile woman who they systemically rape in order to try to have a child.
text: In the novel, we meet Offred in her current class position as a "handmaid," which is basically a fertile woman forced to bear the children of the ruling class.
text: In this new order, handmaids are women that are fertile and are assigned to a higher ranking, wealthy couple to engage in scheduled, bizarre sex rituals to ideally conceive a child to give to them.