![]() ![]() ![]() One is Agnes’s - better known to Hulu show fans as Hannah - who was snatched from her parents Offred and Luke and raised by the regime. One of these stories is Baby Nicole’s, who is now 16 years old and living in Canada, protected with a different name. ![]() The Testaments is told through three overlapping firsthand stories told by three women, which together explain a chain of events that occurred 15 years after Offred’s final scene. This sequel focuses less on violence and the perversity of society in Gilead, and more on daily life among the more privileged classes, as well as how experience and stories shape characters. In The Testaments, Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, the writer again projects the past into the future. Atwood might not be able to predict the future, but she can remind us of the old adage: “History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes.” She described The Handmaid’s Tale as an “anti-prediction,” a template for what not to do. TIME AND TIME AGAIN, the author Margaret Atwood has reiterated that everything in The Handmaid’s Tale has a historical precedent. ![]()
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