In this chapter, the commander wife’s mentality
makes me surprised. Wife may be women's highest class in Gillead and her action
is also driven by the social thought no matter how high rank she is. So what
she does is not like what a real wise woman would do. Under her elegant
appearance is a morbid thirst for fertility to ensure her and her family’s status.
Thus the wife can openly talk to Offred, and told her that she should be
pregnant with Nick. Her heart was not condemned by moral feeling; it also shows
that the necessary obligations of fertility must be above the morality and
emotion. consequentialism guides wife's idea, in other words, as long as her
family got the child, no matter what way, even if this way is a little against
ethics, it is ok to do it.
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