What happens to “the individual” in the dystopia?

The individual in The handmaid’s Tale has been stripped of her rights, life and family. Offered once had a husband and a daughter, they had freedom and love. After the disruption of the United States, she was separated from her family and sent to an old high school where she was trained to be a handmade. She, among the other women who are still fertile, were sentenced to a life of giving birth for couples called commanders. She is taught to waste not and want not. She is restricted from normal accessories such as alcohol, cigarettes, and coffee. Her life is restricted to buying food for her foster couple, trying to hide from spies called “eyes”, and trying to bare a child. She is forced to follow strict, undignifying rules that force her to always walk with a partner, only speak when talking to, and do what one is told. Without knowledge of her past friends, family, and mother, she is forced to make friendly acquaintances wherever she could. She is forced to a red ensemble and white wings that stamps her of her occupation. She has frequent flashbacks of her friend and husband which explain the events leading up to her current life. On page thirty one, a tourist asks her and her walking partner if they are happy and she says yes. Her constant restriction of “freedom to” has brainwashed her that she is receiving “freedom from”. Although she has no personal belongings, she finds happiness in small defiance and thoughts. Her memories of past life and family haunt her and the readers. As the young girl prepares for a life of horror, she learns of a defiant group called “May day” and gains little hope. The individual of this story is in a unique situation that has no easy escape.