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The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel by Renée Nault & Margaret Atwood

Read time: <1 Day Rating: 5/5

The quote: Ordinary is what you are used to. ... This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. — Aunt Lydia

Full disclosure I read this without having read Margaret Atwood's source novel or any of the adaptations. I've seen the costumes and know the general idea but that is it. This is praised as an adaptation by fans so I was intrigued. Does reading this make me want to read Atwood's novel? Kind of. I'd need to be in the right mood.

On this as an adaptation. Renée Nault's art is beautiful. There is a clear difference between Offred's past and her less than stellar present. The colouring for her past scenes is really soft and bright. It allows for a clear time transitions. The only time I questioned the art was in a single scene, with the balance of types of women at the Prayvaganza. Her font choice was great, it is well suited, small but clean and still readable. It was interwoven into some scenes maintaining the flow as is only right. It didn't assume that readers had read the source material.

On the Handmaid's Tale in general. I can see why this (and 1984) has the increase in popularity, the political climate in western countries now it doesn't sound that far off happening. Essentially it's realistic. This leaves you with questions. About feminism, gender, politics and life in general. The plot uses castes and story the relevance of which that hasn't changed too much. I love the ending, the ending would be frustrating for most books but due to the underlying story mechanic it fits.

The phrase 'nolite te bastardes carvorundorum' a fake Latin phrase meaning "don't let the bastards grind you down" is fantastic. I'm assuming that it and all about that phasing comes from Atwood as the most important pieces have. It is perfect for the women of Gilead and the world they are in, all the women of Gilead are suppressed in some way. I also appreciate the discussion about gender and feminism with Moira. LGBTQ+ Moira, who really isn't a fan of men or the patriarchy. And I could be happier that she is a redhead. There is a stereotype there that is accurate in my experience Redhead's emotions ted to run hot.

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It’s weird how I’ll be reading something like the handmaid’s tale and they’re at the prayvaganza and I’ll start thinking they need to do a better job of social distancing and not even realize

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Nick&June Tag Game

I'm a little late to the game. Work got in the way of my shipper heart. But here I am and off I go...

I got asked by fellow shipper @skyshipper to participate and got tagged by @potpourri-of-ecclecticism. Thank you guys ❤.

1.) What’s your favorite Nick & June scene?

2.) Which scene between them did you find most heartbreaking?

3.) Other than Nick or June, who is your favorite character on the show?

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1. That is a hard one since I have so many. The one I watched over and over again like a maniac was this one:

June was desperate in that moment. Being pregnant should have been her salvation in Gilead. But she was heartbroken for obvious reasons. 

And the revealing of that pregnancy to Nick was also on shaky grounds. June was putting it out there, not knowing how he would react to that information. I’m sure up to that point they hadn’t even contemplated the possibility of a pregnancy.  Even though they initially were brought together for just that to happen.  

And they were broken up. Nick had broke them up and I think June still wasn’t sure if he was a person to be really trusted at that time.

Nicks reaction is perfect though. He makes June feel like the pregnancy is something special. Special not for Serena or Fred and the Gilead regime, but special for the actual parents of that baby. And with his loving stare (I just love the moment they lock eyes and June begins to smile.... ) and his leaning into her he shows that he wanted to be close to June so much. And that it isn’t just about the baby and the pregnancy. He missed being close to her.

2. For me it was the wedding. June was just so broken at that point. And we were waiting and hoping for her to snap out of her fugue state, for her to show some feelings again that were her own and not something indoctrinated.

And then the prayvaganza turned out to be a mass wedding. An June had to witness Nick getting married off to a little girl. Another good thing in her life twisted and broken by Serena, Fred and Gilead. 

And she snapped out of her fugue state, if only for some seconds ,only to get her heart broken even more. 

Those desperate looks they shared broke my heart (not only my shipper heart).

3. Rita, hands down. She is a Nick&June shipping snarky goddess. 

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Sorry for the poorly gifed scenes, I was in a rush. I just wanted to answer the questions so badly!!!

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The Handmaid’s Tale: How Will Margaret Atwood’s Book Sequel Affect the TV Show?

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Margaret Atwood’s Testaments, out this September, is a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. What is its relationship to the TV series?

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This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

As Game Of Thrones proved, when a TV adaptation overtakes its source material, problems can follow. Invention and expansion is required, but, even with the blessing of the original creator, on-screen continuation of a story is often treated by fans as unwelcome and non-canonical.

When Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale arrived in 2017, its first season covered the expanse of material from the very start to the very end of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel (epilogue aside, it closed on the same final image). For seasons two and three, the show expanded the dystopian world of Gilead, a fundamentalist patriarchal regime that, among other delights, forces fertile women into sexual servitude as 'Handmaids' to the ruling classes, and kept the story going beyond the reach of the book.

Now, with The Handmaid’s Tale renewed for a fourth season, and a sequel to the original novel arriving mid-way between seasons three and four, where does everything stand? 

What do we know about Testaments?

Publication date: Sept. 10, 2019

Published by: Penguin

Announced in November 2018, Testaments is Margaret Atwood's sequel to her 1985 modern classic The Handmaid’s Tale. It joins the story 15 years after the events of that novel. (A framing narrative for the original in the form of a fictional academic paper presented on the historical period of Gilead extends 200 years after those events, so technically, the sequel is filling in a gap instead of branching entirely out anew.)

Testaments' cover art (see above) was designed by artist Noma Bar, whose simplified designs contain hidden images, such as the ponytailed girl forming the collar of the cover star Handmaid. The back cover reverses the two images, with the Handmaid concealed among the ponytailed girl's clothing.

read more - The Handmaid's Tale: The Baby Nichole Crisis's Real-World Parallel

The new novel will have three different female narrators, Atwood has confirmed, though their identities remain under wraps. The sequel was inspired by everything readers have ever asked the author “about Gilead and its inner workings,” and by “the world we’ve been living in,” according to the Penguin press announcement. It will be unconnected to events in seasons two and three of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale (which makes sense as they take place in the time directly after the end of the original, and Testaments is set a decade and a half later on). 

When asked by the LA Times why she was writing a sequel, Atwood explained that she’d been asked questions about Gilead by readers for 35 years. “It’s time to address some of the requests.” 

The Trump administration too, was part of her explanation. Atwood described herself “like all Canadians” watching US politics and thinking “What kind of shenanigans will they be up to next? What’s gonna happen next? I’ve never seen anything like it, and neither has anybody else. On one hand, it’s just riveting, and on the other hand, it’s quite appalling.” True and true.

Testaments isn’t Margaret Atwood’s first addition to her original novel

In 2017, an “enhanced edition” of The Handmaid’s Tale audiobook - as read by Claire Danes in 2012 - was released. This version by Audible not only added snippets of music in between chapters (to represent the cassette compilation tapes over which Offred recorded her story in the original novel), but also extended the epilogue. 

read more: The Handmaid's Tale Season 3 Depicts a Seismic Shift in Gilead

Originally, The Handmaid’s Tale novel ends with the ‘transcription’ of a fictional conference paper presented by an academic researcher in Gileadean studies, 200 years after the events of the story. It’s a sly, satirical piece of writing that concluded with the line “Are there any questions?” In the 2017 edition, questions are asked. Audience members – one voiced by Margaret Atwood – ask speaker Professor James Darcy Pieixoto a series of points about his paper and the workings of Gilead. During the Q&A, there’s even mention of the historical discovery of Aunt Lydia’s logbook from the era, which turned out to be a hoax. The session ends with a tease for the sequel, as the Professor tells his audience “I hope to be able to present the results of our further Gileadian investigations to you at some future date.”

On September the 10th this year, that’s exactly what's going to happen.

What is Atwood’s relationship to The Handmaid’s Tale TV show?

Atwood is a Consulting Producer on Hulu’s TV adaptation of her novel, which doesn’t mean, as she told Toronto Life back in April 2017, that she has the final say in story or otherwise, but that she’s part of the conversation: “It means that the only person who knows what the characters had for breakfast is me. I’m the historical consultant.”

Showrunner Bruce Miller told The Hollywood Reporter in January 2018 that Atwood “plays a huge role” in the series as “the mother of us all.” 

“She was in the writers' room very early in the season,” said Miller about the second season. “We've been talking throughout, and she's been reading everything. She's very involved. She's our guiding star, and always has been.” 

The team’s goal, he explained, is to “make sure the "Atwoodness" of the show stays front and centre. Even though we're going beyond the story that's covered in the book, in some ways, we're still very much in the world of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.”

In the season one premiere, Atwood had a dialogue-free cameo as an authoritarian Aunt who strikes Elisabeth Moss’ June during her training at the RED centre, where Handmaids are prepared for their postings:

%u201CI even did a cameo%u2014I got to whack Elisabeth Moss over the head%u201D: @MargaretAtwood on The Handmaid%u2019s Tale https://t.co/l9tmnT3Oke pic.twitter.com/YvMuugvNRv

— Toronto Life (@torontolife) April 26, 2017

Speaking to The Independent in June 2019, Miller confirmed that he is is regular contact with Atwood. “She reads all the scripts. She sees episodes, and so she feels the same way, I think – that it’s a good extrapolation of her world.”

So the expanded Gilead of seasons two and three, which travelled to the Colonies and the Econovillage, locations only mentioned in passing in the original novel, will not influence Testaments.

Seasons two, three and four of the TV show continue to draw from the book

Though The Handmaid’s Tale TV show outran the novel by the end of season one in terms of timeline, elements from the book are still being used up by  the television series. In season two, the first “Prayvaganza” was staged, a Gilead ceremony from the novel in which girls as young as fourteen are married off to men in a mass ceremony. 

In season three, viewers first witnessed the act of “particicution” by hanging as described in the novel, in which multiple Handmaids pull on ropes joined to one set of gallows, as a form of “salvaging.” Also in season three, June discovers and records a message on a compilation cassette in the basement of her latest posting, as a reference to the tapes on which Offred’s original testimony was discovered in the novel.   

Speaking to The Independent in June 2019, showrunner Bruce Miller described how June’s season three inner monologue line about her mother always wanting a "women's culture" and Gilead has created one, but not the one she envisaged, was taken straight from the book. “We spent kind of three years teasing that quote apart,” said Miller. “We have quotes from the book up all over the place."

So even though the timeline has strictly run out, we can expect details from the novel to emerge for exploration in future seasons of the TV show, and presumably the same will apply for Testaments.

Testaments will make the TV show harder to write

Speaking to The Independent about the relationship between the original novel and the TV adaptation, showrunner Bruce Miller brought up Testaments. “But now Margaret’s writing a sequel,” he said, agreeing that would make it “interesting”. 

“The degree of difficulty was 10 and now it becomes 10 plus,” said Miller. Navigating the expanded world of Gilead he and his team have created while remaining truthful to the vision Atwood lays out in Testaments will be some balancing act.

How many seasons will the TV show go on for?

Season four of The Handmaid’s Tale is expected to arrive in 2020. According to a very early plan by showrunner Bruce Miller, there would then be a further six seasons still to go after that. Miller told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 that he had originally “roughed it out to around 10 seasons”, but has since confirmed to Mashable that there is no exact target in terms of the number of seasons, more a narrative point he wants to reach.  

“The ideal for the show's longevity is that when it's done there's something kind of nice and perfect that you can put on the shelf next to the book as a companion piece, said Miller. “There is no number, and considering that seasons can get longer and shorter has made that even more meaningless.”

Miller told Mashable he wants to take the story all the way to Gilead’s own version of the Nuremberg Trials after the fall of the regime, when Serena and Commander Waterford are forced to answer for their crimes. “We can go on for a very long time,” he promised.  

Keep up with all our The Handmaid's Tale season 3 news and reviews right here.

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Jul 31, 2019

The Handmaid's Tale

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Too Much Temptation for Us (Spoilers)

Offred discusses literacy as a privilege rather than a right.  Gilead has converted all shop signs so that places are known by their wares,such as Lilies of the Field, Milk and Honey, and All Flesh, even painting out the letters below the signs so that women can’t read the dusty traces.  The magazines she encounters in the Commander’s study are forbidden, and she asked him how he managed to save them from the book burning tirades, only to be told that they are allowed if one is “beyond reproach.”   She is part of literally the last generation of women who will be purposefully taught to read.   

Stripping the women of work by law is terrible, yet another injustice heaped on top of it becomes the lack of a right to read and interpret ideas for themselves.  

 Even older women who can read can no longer verify.  Offred makes note of this when Commander Waterford takes out his Bible to read to the household of women during their ritual before the monthly rape.

He inserts the key, opens the box, lifts out the Bible, an ordinary copy, with a black cover and gold-edged pages.  The Bible is kept locked up, the way people once kept tea locked up, so the servants wouldn’t steal it.  It’s an incendiary device: who knows what we’d make of it, if we ever got our hands on it? We can be read to from it, by him, but we cannot read.

Offred includes the Marthas Rita and Cora, and Waterford’s wife Serena, in her collective “we,” as Gilead treats all of its women the same way. If the household ever has a coveted Daughter, she will be shrouded in white and will not be taught to read, as the older women were taught.  

In the re-education center, even the powerful Aunts weren’t allowed to read.

For lunch it was the Beatitudes.  Blessed be this, blessed be that.   They played it from a tape, so not even an Aunt would be guilty of the sin of reading.  The voice was a man’s.  Blessed be the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  Blessed be the merciful.  Blessed be the meek. Blessed are the silent.  I knew they made that up, knew it was wrong, and they left things out, too, but there was no way of checking.

A dreadful premonition that Offred makes, perhaps thinking of her own daughter shrouded in white at a future arranged marriage ceremony during the Women’s Prayvaganza, given away by the Wife in the pictures with her little girl, is this: 

Are they old enough to remember anything of the time before, playing baseball, in jeans and sneakers, riding their bicycles?  Reading books, all by themselves? Even though some of them are no more than fourteen -- Start them soon is the policy, there’s not a moment to be lost -- still they’ll remember.  And the ones after them will, for three or four or five years; but after that they won’t.  They’ll have always been in white, in groups of girls; they’ll always have been silent.

How does Atwood translate this fear of a literate populace in Gilead?   Do you think that it will only take three to five years for the girls to be completely indoctrinated?   The Commanders and their government make illiteracy one of their hallmark control tools. How hard is it to break out of “normal” if that’s truly all you know?  How does it influence your decision to rebel?  Atwood’s Offred is a bridge protagonist, a protagonist who remembers the old world and seeks to survive in the new one, a woman who was never raised from early childhood or birth in the dystopia.   What different decisions would Katniss Everdeen or Tris Prior make if they were bridge protagonists in their respective dystopias, instead of daughters raised in the new world?

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Section XII

Hey reader!

In section twelve, we get to find out what happened to the important women in Offred’s life before becoming a Handmaid. There’s also a chance of a new love interest for Offred, who finally seems to be starting to get her mind together.

Summary

Section XII- Jezebels (Chapters 31-39)

Present:

While speaking of the resistance on a shopping trip, Ofglen tells Offred that the code word for the organization is “Mayday”, but that she should use it carefully in order to prevent being caught.

Upon returning home, Serena Joy tells Offred that she knows she has little time left to get pregnant. Serena thinks that the Commander may be sterile, and asks Offred to sleep with Nick instead. Offred is hesitant to agree, but Serena offers her a picture of her daughter. Then, she goes to see the Commander who now resorts to drinking while she visits him. The Commander, who is high in the chain of Command according to Ofglen, says that the formation of Gilead was necessary because the men were getting bored with women in the old society.

Some time after, Ofglen and Offred attend a “Prayvaganza” which is a ceremony in which the daughters of the Commanders get married off to the Guardians. According to the Commander, these marriages give women happiness as they no longer have to deal with the abandonment or beating of their husbands as in the past society. He says that arranged marriages work better than love marriages.

After the service, Ofglen says that the subversives know that Offred sees her Commander in secret. She advises Offred to learn as much as she can about him, and to inform her once she does.

That night, Serena gives Offred a picture of her daughter. Offred sees her daughter smiling in a white dress, the same colour as the Wives’ daughters wear, and thinks that her daughter probably doesn’t miss her. Then Offred goes to see the Commander, who tells her to put on a revealing costume and makeup since he is taking her out. Offred puts on Serena’s winter cloak  They get into the car with Nick, who does not make eye contact with Offred; this worries Offred.

The Commander takes Offred to a hotel, where many women dressed in strange costumes and other Commanders mingle. Offred is given a purple tag around her wrist, which marks her as an evening rental for the Commander. The Commander says that this hotel, although illegal, is necessary to satisfy men. While he’s off speaking to his friends, Offred spots Moira who is wearing a playboy bunny costume. Moira discreetly gives Offred the signal to meet her in the washroom in five minutes.

When the Commander returns, Offred asks to use the washroom. Outside the washroom, an Aunt tells Offred she has fifteen minutes. When inside, Moira tells Offred what happened after she escaped the Red Centre. She found a Quaker couple, who connected her to the Underground Femaleroad. The network tried to get women out of the country and into safety. She was apprehended by the Eyes right before she made it onto a boat. She was tortured and showed videos about the Colonies. Moira says she saw a video of Offred’s mother in one of them, working in the fields of toxic waste. Moira was given a choice between the Colonies and the club, called “Jezebel’s”. Moira said she chose Jezebel’s because the life expectancy in the Colonies was three years, and at least they gave her face cream here. She tells Offred to consider coming here as well, which upsets Offred since she is sad to see Moira not being her usual rebel self. Offred comments that she never sees Moira again after this encounter.

Later, the Commander takes Offred into one of the hotel rooms. Offred feels no excitement at the situation, and tells herself to try to remember what it feels like to enjoy sex.

Past:  On a shopping trip, Offred and Ofglen see a man at the Wall with a J hung around his neck. They are confused by it because if the man were Jewish, he would be marked with the Star of David. All jewish people were told to either convert or to emigrate to Israel when Gilead was formed. A similar case went for Catholic nuns, but young nuns were given the option to become Handmaid’s if they converted. Old nuns were sent to the Colonies.

Offred remembers when her and Luke tried to escape using fake IDs. The Guards at the border picked up the phone and called someone after inspecting theirs. Luke quickly turned the car and drove away, and then they took it to foot to try and shake off the Guards.

When in the hotel room, Offred excuses herself to use the bathroom. She recalls her mother, who she assumed had been dead. Luke and Offred had gone to look for her mother in her apartment after she hadn’t visited in awhile, and found the apartment in a mess. They didn’t go to the police, since Luke no longer trusted them. Offred is sad that the Colonies took away her mother’s spirit.

Analysis

Characters:

Offred’s emotions and feelings are the most grounded they have been throughout the whole novel. She feels sentimental towards her mother and Moira, and longing for her daughter. These feelings are connected to love, which is what Gilead has been depriving Offred of. Love is important to Offred, since in her mind she believes that falling in love is always better than an arranged marriage. We see Offred tying the connections between the three women from her past. These connections can allow her mind to rest and contemplate less on the past and moreso on the present. The only person left is Luke. I don’t think Luke really matters, though. I think she needs a male to tie a connection to instead. This male might be Nick. If the sexual tension between the two is real, as Offred says it is, then maybe she can find herself within Nick. Perhaps if she can trust Nick, she can trust men as a whole and in turn trust humanity to one day be just.

Nick is a Guard, but it is possible that he’s more than that. Why is it that the Commander trusts him so much, as to illegally take Offred with him to Jezebel’s? Either the Commander is so hung up in his own rank that he thinks he is above the law, or Nick is hoping to gain something from the Commander. Nick, from Offred’s unreliable perspective, seems to be disappointed in Offred for going with the Commander to Jezebel’s. Does he actually like Offred or is Offred wanting him to care for her? If he cares, then why is he letting the Commander take her out?

Moira’s destiny is depressing, especially since she served as a symbolism of hope and resistance in the previous chapters. To know that the system has broken her in a sense only proves that Gilead is capable of working, and that is why it is a threat to us. I’m happy Moira gets to hook up with a lot of women though. Keep slaying, girl.

The Commander took selfish to a whole new level. Not only is has he cheated on his Wife multiple times, but he thinks it’s justified to do so. He says that men need numerous amount of women, which is why Jezebel’s exists in the first place. He was part of creating Gilead for the sole purpose that he and other men were bored with being able to get with women ‘easily’. He says phrases like “You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs,” to make it sound like his actions were utilitarian. In actuality, they help a minute group of the population, old men, to be able to exploit women and young girls to alleviate their own ‘boredom’ that comes with women being sexually active.

Plot:

Now, we understand the formation of Gilead and what the society values, the Colonies, how Offred ended up where she is, what happened to Moira, Offred’s mother, and Offred’s daughter. The introduction of Jezebel’s changes our perception of Gilead. If Jezebel’s is illegal, why are so many Commander’s taking part in it? We don’t know much about the structure of Gilead’s government, but if Commanders hold a high rank and are doing something illegal then aren’t they under threat of losing their titles? There must be a higher status than Commanders, who have deemed Jezebel’s illegal. If Aunts are located in Jezebel’s, then surely it isn’t illegal. Perhaps this misaligning of values is illegal officially but legal practically as a gesture to complete the male-centric experience that Gilead offers.

We also learn about the Underground Femaleroad. This ensures that the resistance exists, and that the government is handling it. The Colonies are formally introduced as what may be a form of concentration camps: they’re full of toxic waste and use the labour of old and persecuted women. I’m curious to know if people of colour are also sent there, as we haven’t heard much of them in the novel.

Themes:

The church and the state: With new information on how Jews and Quakers were treated, we know explicitly that religious intolerance is rampant in Gilead. With the persecution of Jews and the use of the Colonies as concentration camps, Margaret Atwood must have used Nazi Germany’s setup as inspiration to the structure of Gilead. Rather than racial purity being the purpose, instead the goal of Gilead is to establish control on women. Hitler blamed Jews for the fall of Germany, and Gilead blames women and their choices in terms of their own sexualities for the country’s dire condition. Hitler solved it by getting rid of Jews, Gilead solves it by getting rid of choice.

Women’s role in society:

In Gilead, women who can’t reproduce are deemed worthless unless they are married to men of prestige. Old women are automatically sent to the colonies, and young women are to choose between Jezebel’s and the Colonies. Moira’s answer to the option she was given adds women empowerment to Offred’s narrative. Moira chose to be a prostitute rather than Handmaid. At least as prostitute, you have control over your own body. You get face cream. This face cream, which has been repeatedly mentioned throughout the novel, represents self-care. Moira and the other women in Jezebel’s are the only women who have bodies that are truly theirs, which is why they get to take care of themselves. Moira has something to gain from how she uses her body, whereas Handmaid’s only have their dignity to lose if they can’t reproduce. Jezebel’s challenges the idea that prostitutes have no self-respect, and instead says that these women value themselves and their bodies more than any other women in Gilead.

That’s all for this section. Tune in for the finale of The Handmaid’s Tale to find out how Nick and Offred get it on, and what will become of our increasingly stable protagonist.

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Blog entry 18:    I went to a Prayvaganzas today.  Ofglen told me that Janine’s baby was deformed after all, guess that’s a good thing in some ways.  The commander had talked to me about how Gilead had taken away some freedoms, specifically those related to relationships and love to me reproduction easier.  I guess he might be right in some way.  

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