Aunt Lydia

Aunt Lydia is a fictional character from Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid’s Tale." She is a strict, authoritative figure responsible for training and supervising women in a theocratic society where they are assigned roles primarily for reproduction. Aunt Lydia enforces societal rules, molds women into obedient members, and justifies the regime’s oppression through her religious and ideological beliefs. Her role highlights themes of control, power dynamics, and the use of propaganda to maintain a rigid, oppressive social order.