WebIn this scene Aunt Lydia acts like a school teacher, or a parent, in the way that she bluntly instructs the handmaids to eat their dinner, which again reinforces the idea that the handmaids are like young children, who are dependant on Aunt Lydia, making them more vulnerable and easier to control.

The Handmaid

WebSummary Full Book Summary Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America. Because of dangerously low reproduction rates, Handmaids are assigned to bear children for elite couples that have trouble conceiving. WebChapter 38 summary. Five minutes later, Offred makes her way to the washroom. A dressed-up Aunt standing guard with a cattle prod tells her she has fifteen minutes. Offred meets Moira inside and explains that the Commander smuggled her into the club just for the night. Moira tells her own story. horniman hair exhibition

Section XII Jezebel’s, Chapters 38–9 Moira’s story The Handmaid

WebChapter 41 summary. Offred tells her imagined listener that her story is almost too painful to bear, but that she needs to go on telling it because it wills her listener into being. She may be addressing the reader, or she may be addressing Luke; she says she wants to hear her listener's story too, if her listener escapes. WebAs she did at the end of Chapter 38, Offred falls into a rare moment of hopelessness. She has Ofglen, and soon Nick, to talk to and rebel with, but her old life is vanishing. Active Themes WebAnalysis. Offred sometimes sings herself “Amazing Grace,” a song now banned for the word “free.”. She also sings a song about loneliness that she remembers from her mother ’s cassettes. The only other music in the house is Rita ’s occasional humming, or Serena Joy illegally listening to recordings of her young self singing religious ... horn image cartoon