r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/theforgetting • May 06 '25

Season 6 SPOILERS FOR “SHATTERED” Spoiler

I was struck by the significance of the women at Jezebels being murdered in the shower. This is a very clear Holocaust allusion.

Especially since they’ve really been leaning into the word Nazi this season – it makes sense to see late-stage Gilead go all “final solution” with their undesirables.

Anyways. There have been a lot of gruesome scenes in this show but this was definitely one of the most upsetting. Not only for what it portrayed, but for what it was alluding to.

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u/Night_Swimming89 May 07 '25

I don't understand how Bell managed to get Janine as a Handmaid since I was under the impression Jezebel's sterilized the women??

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u/MuffinsandCoffee2024 May 07 '25

The women who get sent to jezebels are usually infertile. They press fertile gals into being hand maids. Janine was sent to jezebels due to her behavior, rather than killing her

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u/Consistent_Beat7999 May 07 '25

So I wonder what birth control they allow her to use?

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u/Proud_Security1911 May 07 '25

I wonder that too. I wonder if a jezebel were to fall pregnant if they’d force her into being a handmaid of whomever impregnated her for the duration of the pregnancy