![]() Aided by influential adults, Agnes manages to escape marriage and enters training to be an Aunt. ![]() Following the death of her adoptive mother, Agnes’s stepmother plots to marry her off when she is barely 13. Gilead upholds its standards using their mercenaries, the Angels, and their spies, the Eyes.Īgnes shares her life story as the privileged daughter of a Commander in Gilead. In this society, women are treated as objects, Handmaids are used as sex slaves to produce children for Commanders, Marthas are servants to the upper-class, Econofamilies are the impoverished lower-class, Pearl Girls are the missionaries of Gilead, and Aunts are the religious leaders of the women’s sphere. Gileadean society continues under the oppressive thumb of the ultra-religious Commanders and Aunts. ![]() ![]() The Testaments begins 15 years after the conclusion of The Handmaid’s Tale, in which the Handmaid Offred escaped Gilead with her baby, Nicole. ![]()
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