Throughout the novel, it is clear that Gilead is not a society compromised of individuals; rather it is a society where people are thought to be a collective group: “That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that’s how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before” (Atwood 192-193). Offred reflects back on the killing of her cat where Luck was the killer