Handmaid's Tale Verified A+

Handmaid's Tale Verified A+ Jezebels ️️these are women who could not be handmaids because they were attractive or too educated. they are basically prostitutes. the government runs Jezebels for the enjoyment of visiting diplomats, tourists, and commanders. they have a nonexistent status but are sent to the colonies when they are unable to do their job anymore. Ofglen ️️Another Handmaid who is Offred's shopping partner and a member of the subversive "Mayday" underground. At the end of the novel, Ofglen is found out, and she hangs herself rather than face torture and reveal the names of her co-conspirators. Offred ️️The narrator and protagonist of The Handmaid's Tale. She belongs to the class of Handmaids, fertile women forced to bear children for elite, barren couples. She remembers her real name but never reveals it. She no longer has family or friends, though she has flashbacks to a time in which she had a daughter and a husband named Luke. The cruel physical and psychological burdens of her daily life in Gilead torment her and pervade her narrative. Moria ️️she was Offred's friend from the past life. She was the only one who saw what was happening to society. She is apart of the Jezebels, tried to escape only having to surrender. She was a symbol of heroism for Offred until offred realized that even she was broken in the end. Commander ️️"You can't cheat nature". He is the highest ranked in Gilead. He takes part in "ceremonies" and invited Offred to come to his study in order to play scrabble and eventually to the Jezebels. He is trying to hold on to something like the past. Eventually, the commander is caught by his wife about his affiliations with offered. He often seems a decent, well-meaning man, and Offred sometimes finds that she likes him in spite of herself. He almost seems a victim of Gilead, making the best of a society he opposes. However, we learn from various clues and from the epilogue that the Commander was actually involved in designing and establishing Gilead. Nick ️️He is kind of the pawn in this story. His purpose is to be a support for the commander and his wife..He and Offred have a sexual chemistry that they get to satisfy when Serena Joy orchestrates an encounter between them in an effort to get Offred pregnant. After sleeping together once, they begin a covert sexual affair. Nick is not just a Guardian; he may work either as a member of the Eyes, Gilead's secret police, or as a member of the underground Mayday resistance, or both. At the end of the novel, Nick orchestrates Offred's escape from the Commander's home, but we do not know whether he puts her into the hands of the Eyes or the resistance. Luke ️️he had an affair with Offred while he was married to another woman, then got a divorce and became Offred's husband. When Gilead comes to power, he attempts to escape to Canada with Offred and their daughter, but they are captured. He is separated from Offred, and the couple never see one another again. Offred typically refers back to luke as a comparison to the love they shared and society now. Janine/ofwarren ️️Offred knows her from their time at the Red Center. She has a baby, which makes her the envy of all the other Handmaids in the area, but the baby later turns out to be deformed—an "Unbaby"—and there are rumors that her doctor fathered the child. she is a conformist, always ready to go along with what Gilead demands of her, and so she endears herself to the Aunts and to all authority figures. Offred holds Janine in contempt for taking the easy way out. Aunt Lydia ️️The Aunts are the class of women assigned to indoctrinate the Handmaids with the beliefs of the new society and make them accept their fates. Aunt Lydia works at the "Red Center," the re‑education center where Offred and other women go for instruction before becoming Handmaids. Although she appears only in Offred's flashbacks, Aunt Lydia and her instructions haunt Offred in her daily life. Aunt Lydia's slogans and maxims drum the ideology of the new society into heads of the women, until even those like Offred, women who do not truly believe in the ideology, hear Gilead's words echoing in their heads. Serena Joy ️️The Commander's Wife, Serena worked in pre-Gilead days as a gospel singer, then as an anti-feminist activist and crusader for "traditional values." In Gilead, she sits at the top of the female social ladder, yet she is desperately unhappy. Serena's unhappiness shows that her restrictive, male dominated society cannot bring happiness even to its most pampered and powerful women. Serena jealously guards her claims to status and behaves cruelly toward the Handmaids in her household. Cora ️️Cora works as a servant in the Commander's household. She belongs to the class of Marthas, infertile women who do not qualify for the high status of Wives and so work in domestic roles. Cora seems more content with her role than her fellow Martha, Rita. She hopes that Offred will be able to conceive, because then she will have a hand in raising a child.