The HandMaid's tale- Fiche de lecture en Anglais

« HANDMAID’S TALE PLOT : She can leave the house only on shopping trips, the door to her room cannot be completely shut, and the Eyes, Gilead’s secret police force, watch her every public move. Offred had an affair with Luke , a married man.

Luke divorced his wife and married Offred, and they had a child together.

Offred’s best friend, Moira , was fiercely independent. The architects of Gilead began their rise to power in an age of readily available pornography, prostitution, and violence against women—when pollution and chemical spills led to declining fertility rates. Using the military, they assassinated the president and members of Congress and launched a coup, claiming that they were taking power temporarily.

They cracked down on women’s rights, forbidding women to hold property or jobs.

Offred and Luke took their daughter and attempted to flee across the border into Canada, but they were caught and separated from one another, and Offred has seen neither her husband nor her daughter since. Then, she was sent to the Rachel and Leah Re-education Center, called the Red Center by its inhabitants.

At the center, women were indoctrinated into Gilead’s ideology in preparation for becoming Handmaids.

Aunt Lydia supervised the women, giving speeches extolling Gilead’s beliefs that women should be subservient to men and solely concerned with bearing children.

Moira is brought to the Red Center, but she escapes, and Offred does not know what becomes of her. The first break from her routine occurs when she visits the doctor and he offers to have sex with her to get her pregnant, suggesting that her Commander is probably infertile.

She refuses.

The doctor makes her uneasy, but his proposition is too risky—she could be sent away if caught.

After a Ceremony, the Commander sends his gardener and chauffeur, Nick, to ask Offred to come see him in his study the following night. After some time has gone by without Offred becoming pregnant, Serena suggests that Offred have sex with Nick secretly and pass the child off as the Commander’s .

Serena promises to bring Offred a picture of her daughter if she sleeps with Nick, and Offred realizes with horror that Serena has always known where her daughter was. The same night that Offred is to sleep with Nick, the Commander secretly takes her out to a club called Jezebel’s, where the Commanders mingle with prostitutes.

Offred sees Moira working there and Offred learns that Moira was captured just before she crossed the border.. »