In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Story,” a “disciplinary lady” refers to a determine who enforces the inflexible guidelines and laws of the totalitarian society of Gilead.
Disciplinary ladies, often known as “Aunts,” play a vital function in sustaining order and suppressing individuality throughout the patriarchal society. They oversee the coaching and indoctrination of handmaids, the fertile ladies compelled to bear kids for the elite ruling class. Aunts wield important energy, utilizing bodily and psychological punishments to make sure compliance and conformity among the many handmaids.
