All of nature, after all, is a constant cyclical reminder of just such a fertile female force, the seed source of all generation.
Our narrator Offred, nee June (Elisabeth Moss), is a handmaid: a fertile woman forced to bear children for the heads of state.
They are either Wives, married to Commanders, the founders and shapers of the new regime; Econowives, the spouses of lower ranking men; Marthas, too old to have children and now domestic slaves; Aunts, the regime's propagandists; or Handmaids, considered fertile and forced to bear children for officials.
But the practice has drawn criticism that it harks back to colonial-era "plantation agriculture" where rich outsiders force subsistence farmers off fertile land to grow export crops.
With highly educated managers, a productive work force, low costs and considerable fertile land, Syria has much to offer investors.
The few fertile women are forced to serve as handmaids, bearing the children of the nation's leaders whose wives are barren.
The communal areas are the marginal and submarginal lands which were created early in the 20th century when the British colonists "took over the most fertile lands and forced much of the indigenous population [End Page 86] into arid and semi-arid areas" which are unsuitable for agriculture because they have insufficient or unreliable rainfall.
Fortunately, in Hine's fertile brain, these forces of darkness are counterbalanced by the top-secret CELIA, which stands for the Celebrity Intelligence Agency.
Its popular shows include "The Handmaid's Tale," an adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel about a dark society where fertile women are forced by a government to give up their jobs and focus on birthing children.
I started feeling like an uprooted, disenfranchised farmer of Dust Bowl days, driven from once green and fertile land and forced to migrate to unknown places.
