THT AO5

Offred writes nolites

Serena Joy as an architect of Gilead

Aunt Lydia blinds Janine in one eye

Hulu adaptation (2017)

wives southern social elite

Offred more sexualised

film adaptation (1990) dir. Schlondorff

exaggerated wings

churchy musicbut dissonant

opera, Ruder ENO 2024

Atwood’s view on the modern intrepretation of THT (Trump era)

it’s being read very differently now, unfortunately. I’m not pleased.

officially silent Other becomes the central narrative

Howells

desperate struggle to reconstruct her being before and after the imposition of Gilead

Sherril Grace

[Offred} discourages us from us from seeing her narrative as fixed, final and anterior;it is instead, ongoing for us as it does for her

Dominick Grace

Serena Joy ‘neither serene or joyous’ and a ‘former Total Woman activist’

to survive, Offred seems to suggest, one must surrender

Barbe Hammer

Atwood’s Gilead is charting a course straight through the UK and Europe, and we might as well be sleepwalking into it

Frances-White