Theme Of Poverty In Real Life

Poverty in Real life vs. Gilead The issue of poverty would be handled differently in Gilead than in real life, as it would include hiding the truth from the citizens of society, sending the poor to the colonies and ignoring the issue altogether. A major difference between Gilead and in real life, would be that in Gilead the government would attempt to resolve this issue by concealing the hard facts about poverty within their society. Unlike in real life, most people find out about issues as they are publically informed through social media, organizations and school education. The novel clearly shows that Gilead has an oppressive capitalist political system and they have halted education, human rights and being free as general members of society,
for example the handmaids are controlled for one purpose only, which being is to produce babies. Therefore, they would treat poverty in a similar way, where people are hidden from the severity of the issue. The real life solution is more effective as it spreads awareness among people so all of them together will stand to eliminate a huge problem. Secondly, people under the poverty line in Gilead would be sent to the colonies to perform work, where they would receive little or no pay. On the other hand, modern day governmental welfare programs would be made and have increasing involvement in fair work. Women who are infertile are sent to the colonies and are deemed useless, so the people in poverty would be treated the same as Gilead would think that there is no purpose for them to be considered working citizens of society. The real life resolution is more effective as those people would have somewhere to start to create a decent and sustainable lifestyle. Finally, the ultimate solution would be to ignore the issue altogether in Gilead. Meanwhile, in real life creating sustainable wages and funding from wealthy countries/individuals could be some possible course of action to life the poor back on their feet. People of Gilead of lower class are ignored of their rights, as they are considered not important enough to think about, poverty would be thought as waste of time and resources. The real life solution is more effective as planning and committing to a course of action is more progressive than just waiting around and not doing anything. All in all, poverty would be eliminated through the awareness among people, a good foundation of welfare and work, planning and taking a course of action rather than doing nothing.