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Handmaids are, perhaps the most important - but also the most oppressed, social class of women in Gilead, as they are tasked with breeding and thus supplying Gilead with more children. Fertile women who in some way break the laws of Gilead end up as Handmaids or worked to death in the Colonies if they either fail or refuse to conceive children. They are assigned to the homes of Commanders, and sometimes highly skilled professionals (e.g. dentists) where their task is get pregnant by the men, so as to provide them and their infertile wives with a child.
In one episode a handmaid portrays mouth rings. They were actually a form of protest by the handmaids that were then used against them: in certain places they are forced to wear actual rings pierced through their skin to seal their mouths shut. I thought about implementing them as a form of punishment in the legion: a measure employed by the aunts to discipline handmaids that misbehave.