While reading The Handmaid’s Tale I noticed that there were many instances in which the mentality of the mob took control over that of the individual. This served as another way for the Handmaids to lose some of the individuality to the theocracy of the Republic of Gilead. What struck me most, however, was that there are also references to the mob mentality in the context of the actions of Offred’s mother in the time before the republic. That the mob mentality is seen in both eras was quite an interesting similarity.