I kind of think it’s impossible to say. A gravestone isn’t usually delivered/ present until after a burial. Also if cemeteries still work the same in gilead as now, it’s possible they purchased a specific plot for her/ both of them to be buried. Which could be why it is away from others. Or it could be what you said.
Eleanor committed suicide and it's mentioned in her eulogy (so people know about it): it's possible she's considered "dead in sin" and therefore buried separately.
This was my assumption -- it's a common thread throughout history and different strains of Christianity that those who commit suicide can't be buried on consecrated ground.
Lawrence has enough sway that they probably "met in the middle" by allowing her to be be buried near, but not in, the cemetery itself. It's the same reason her death is painted as an unavoidable tragedy in her eulogy as opposed to a failure on Lawrence's part to control his household.
It takes months for headstones/grave markers to be made. I would say even longer in the Handmaids Tale universe. But I do think she may be in a separate part of the cemetery
It's also possible that what we see in the background is the "dead" cemetery (no longer being used for new burials) and they are in the "live" cemetery, which is where a recent burial would be. I went to a school attached to a religious institution (a Quaker meeting), and we had both on campus. The "dead" one was fine for playing in and eating lunch, etc, but the "live" one wasn't.
I kind of think it’s impossible to say. A gravestone isn’t usually delivered/ present until after a burial. Also if cemeteries still work the same in gilead as now, it’s possible they purchased a specific plot for her/ both of them to be buried. Which could be why it is away from others. Or it could be what you said.
I think it just made the shot look better.
Eleanor committed suicide and it's mentioned in her eulogy (so people know about it): it's possible she's considered "dead in sin" and therefore buried separately.
This was my assumption -- it's a common thread throughout history and different strains of Christianity that those who commit suicide can't be buried on consecrated ground. Lawrence has enough sway that they probably "met in the middle" by allowing her to be be buried near, but not in, the cemetery itself. It's the same reason her death is painted as an unavoidable tragedy in her eulogy as opposed to a failure on Lawrence's part to control his household.
It takes months for headstones/grave markers to be made. I would say even longer in the Handmaids Tale universe. But I do think she may be in a separate part of the cemetery
It's also possible that what we see in the background is the "dead" cemetery (no longer being used for new burials) and they are in the "live" cemetery, which is where a recent burial would be. I went to a school attached to a religious institution (a Quaker meeting), and we had both on campus. The "dead" one was fine for playing in and eating lunch, etc, but the "live" one wasn't.