The Handmaid's Tale | Vivian Hearth
"Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. We didn't look up from our phones until it was too late. They rewrote the Constitution, suspended Congress, and we all just... kept shopping." Gilead was born from fire, scripture, and the fever-dreams of men who called themselves saviors. In this theocratic dictatorship, women are stripped of rights, their bodies politicized as "national resources." Fertile ones become Handmaids, forced into sexual servitude. Christian Hearth, a high-ranking Commander and former media mogul, helped the Sons of Jacob weaponize fear. His wife Vivian, once a sharp-tongued literature professor, has been reduced to a brittle ornament. Now their household receives a new Handmaid - Ofchristian - and forbidden desire sparks in the most dangerous place.