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Chapter 1

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  • Old gymnasium appearing like a women’s prison
  • Dormitory patrolled by Aunts and guarded by Angels
  • Narrator whispers in the dark
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Chapter 2

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  • Location shifts to Offred’s room
  • Describes outfit and the room
  • Gets ready to go shopping (Marthas and tokens)
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Chapter 3

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  • Describes the garden and Serena
  • Flashback: arriving at Commander’s house and meeting Serena
  • Remembers Seren’s past
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Chapter 4

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  • Offred meets Nick (whistles & winks)
  • Thinks about woman shot at barrier
  • Black vans mentioned
  • Offred makes first act of defiance - eye contact & sways her hips
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Chapter 5

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  • Double vision
  • Shopping (past vs present)
  • ‘Freedom to and freedom from’
  • Encounters Janine, a pregnant Handmaid
  • Japanese tourists
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Chapter 6

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  • Offred and Ofglen walk to the ‘church’
  • Visit the Wall
  • Offred shows signs of resistance as does Ofglen (tremour)
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Chapter 7

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FLASHBACKS
* Moira
* Mother burning magazines
* Her lost daughter
* Contemplates her own storytelling

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Chapter 8

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  • Offred and Ofglen at the Wall
  • Mayday try out
  • Econowive baby funeral
  • Double vision with Ofglen
  • Commander breaks rules - stands outside her room
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Chapter 9

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  • Offred claims her room
  • Discovers old message left from her unknown predecessor
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Chapter 10

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  • Aunt Lydia flashback - rodent
  • Flashback to college days w/ Moira
  • Observes Nick and Commander - fantasises hitting him
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Chapter 11

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  • Offred visits doctor
  • Doctor offers to impregnate her
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Chapter 12

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  • Offred takes a bath
  • Imagines her daughter who was taken away
  • Act of resistance (steals butter from dinner)
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Chapter 13

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  • Time of thinking
  • Describes Red Centre - seeing Moira + secret meetings in washroom
  • Janine gang rape chant
  • Describes her own attempt to escape with daughter
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Chapter 14

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  • Household assembles for family prayers
  • Resistance - stealing item
  • Nick touches Offred’s foot
  • Watch news with Serenea
  • Flashbacks: her names, her failed escape
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Chapter 15

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  • Commander enters
  • Commander reads bible
  • Red Centre flashback: Moira’s escape attempt + punishment
  • Offred prays with with the message (LINKS MOIRA + PREDECESSOR AS REBELLION)
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Chapter 16

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  • The Ceremony
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Chapter 17

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  • Uses butter - rebellion
  • Leaves her room - rebellion
  • Steals flower - rebellion
  • Embraces Nick - rebellion + learns Commander wants a meeting
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Chapter 18

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  • Conflicting hopes and fears for Luke (where he is)
  • Thinking as a method of survival
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Chapter 19

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  • Dreams of her absent family and the past
  • Egg
  • Birthmobile - Ofwarren’s baby
  • Environmental cause of Gilead
  • Submissive nature of Janine
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Chapter 20

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  • Flashback to movies at Red Centre
  • Pornographic tapes and feminist rallies (sees her mother)
  • Flashback to mother in kitchen
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Chapter 21

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  • Janine’s birth
  • Muses on phrase ‘a women’s culture
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Chapter 22

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  • Tells story of Moira’s successful escape (disguise as an aunt)
  • Janine as Aunt Lydia’s helper
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Chapter 23

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  • First meeting with the Commander - play forbidden game ‘Scrabble’ and kiss
  • Cross over between past conventions and present
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Chapter 24

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  • Given hope of survival
  • Offred’s psychological situation changes
  • Laughs at the situation - slightly mad moment
  • Story of mistress’ ignorance of man burning Jewish children in ovens
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Chapter 25

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  • Cora drops breakfast tray
  • Description of garden
  • Describes frequent visits to Commander
  • 2nd meeting - The magazine
  • 3rd meeting - lotion (angry at the Commander for his ignorance)
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Chapter 26

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  • Second Ceremony
  • The way Offred speaks to Commander differs - they are co-conspirators
  • Commander occupies space and time - emotional involvement
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Chapter 27

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  • Offred and Ofglen doubled
  • Rebellion
  • Mayday revealed - undergorund resistance
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Chapter 28

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  • Thoughts about past
  • Reflects on the changes of society (the right wing take over - women stripped of rights) + riots
  • Considers Nick
  • Reminisces about Luke
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Chapter 29

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  • Discuss Commander’s past
  • Offred asks the meaning of the Latin inscription
  • Talks about predecessor hanging herself (also commander’s mistress)
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Chapter 30

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-* Contemplates the doubling of Luke and Nick - longs for love
* Flashback to killing the cat
* Personalised prayer

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Chapter 31

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  • wishful for mundane events of past
  • learns about Mayday password
  • Serena proposes Nick impregnating her
    *Bribes her with a photo of her daughter
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Chapter 32

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  • asks Rita for a match
  • considers her relationship with the Commander
  • Commander discusses that sex was too easy
  • Doubling her dead predecessor
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Chapter 33

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  • Prayvaganza celebrations - mass marriage celebration
  • Sees Janine + finds out baby died
  • Flashback to when Janine went crazy at Red Centre
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Chapter 34

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  • Prayvaganza commnces
  • Flashback to Commander defending Gilead
  • Ofglen makes rebellious comments
  • Flashback to Moira’s opinions
  • Ofglen makes it clear Mayday knows about O’s visits to the Commander
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Chapter 35

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  • flashback to her and her daughter being caught escaping
  • nostalgically reflects on falling in love from conversation with commander
  • Serena brings photo of her daughter
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Chapter 36

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  • Commander dresses her up
  • They leave for Jezebel’s
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Chapter 37

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  • Jezebel’s (state brothel) description
  • Sees Moira
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Chapter 38

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  • Meets Moira in washroom
  • Moira discusses how she got to Jezebel’s
  • Offred reflects that she doesn’t know what happened to Moira
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Chapter 39

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  • Commander arranges a sexual encounter with Offred at Jezebel’s
  • Flashback to Moira saying she saw Offred’s mother at colonies
  • Remembers her mother’s smashed up house and her disappearence
  • Can’t fake enjoying sex with Commander
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Chapter 40

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  • First sexual encounter with Nick
  • Multiple reconstructions
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Chapter 41

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  • Reflects on story
  • Tells us she repeatedly visits Nick for ‘making love’
  • Indifferent to rebellion
  • No longer wants to leave Gilead because of Nick
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Chapter 42

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  • SALVAGING - two Handmaids and one Wife publicly hanged
  • Offred looks away
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Chapter 43

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  • PARTICICUTION
  • Man accused of rape beaten up by Handmaids
  • Ofglen reveals the man was Mayday not a rapist
  • Janine is crazy
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Chapter 44

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  • Ofglen is replaced by a new Ofglen
  • Old Oglen hung herself after Salvaging when she saw the van
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Chapter 45

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  • Offred feels deep deapair at situation
  • Serena finds out about Offred’s affairs with the Commander
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Chapter 46

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  • Offred’s last crisis
  • Sees black van
  • Nick tells her Mayday are here to save her

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