Moira is easily the most realistic character in this book. Breaking out of the indoctrination center/academy for handmaids proves that human nature in this book doesn't breed submissiveness but autonomy. Whereas everyone else felt trapped in their roles, or subverted them only secretly, Moira broke the chains of oppression to free herself from her authoritarian masters.
Moira is introduced as a controversial character in the new society; she is the archetype of what this new order is meant to inhibit, a lesbian, formerly-feminist free-thinker. By bringing up that she is a lesbian at various points, Atwood creates a strong sense of friction with the child-bearing-centric world. She builds the new world as a place of terror, wherein no personal authority is held by anyone but the state and the commanders for a couple of reasons, the main of which being alleviating care for children. By introducing someone, praised and looked to at various points by the protagonist, who is incapable of producing children by her orientation, Atwood instills advocacy for personal freedom through expression.
Censorship of expression is a guarantee in America, and I read a story a couple weeks ago on the boy scouts furthering it: http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2012/11/intel_will_end_support_for_ore.html
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