Moira

Question 1

moira

Answer 1

she escapes to the underground but is captured by the eyes and is tortured

joins Jezebel’s as a result- it breaks her spirit

Question 2

being a whore

Answer 2

Are Moira’s actions in the “underwhore” party really a promotion of women’s rights or does it feed right into the culture of porn and men’s gratification

Question 3

Offred’s attitude towards feminism

Answer 3

dropping water-filled bags in college

was this Moira teaching the boys or was he simply flirting?

Question 4

women’s right

Answer 4

one could fault Offred for being uninvolved in women’s rights, but Moira’s radicalism hardly seems like the solution

Question 5

small world

Answer 5

Moira’s presence at Jezebel’s seems like a huge coincidence, but maybe Gilead is smaller than it pretends to be…

Question 6

Offred says

Answer 6

“I’d like to say she blew up Jezebel’s, with fifty commanders inside”

she sees moira as a more powerful force than perhaps she actually is

Question 7

moira is an

Answer 7

outright rebel, refusing to comply and always asserting herself

however, ends up in Jezebel’s resigned to her fate

Question 8

Ofglen is another rebel

Answer 8

• a less obvious one than moira and arguably more effective, although she does kill herself

however, by doing so she avoids interrogation and the defeat of capture