The Handmaid's Tale (Dates are not accurate)

By ElTibo

  • Moira & Offred are friends at college - Offred marries Luke and they have a child

  • The government gets overthrown. Women are revoked of their rights.

    (Offred is no longer able to access her money - she loses her job as a librarian)

  • Offred, Luke and their child try to escape Gilead but fail; Offred’s child is taken from her

  • The narrator is imprisoned with several other women in a gym

    Maybe at the end of 1980 or at the begining of 1981

  • Offred meets Ofglen and discovers that her predecessor killed herself

    Maybe around 1983

  • Offred takes part in the Ceremony

    (The commander has sex with Offred while his wife, Serena, watches)

  • The Commander and Offred play Scrabble for the first time. They continue to meet secretly, where the commander will offer her forbidden things from the previous society, in return for her company.

  • Ofglen reveals that she is a part of a resistance called Mayday. Offred feels a sense of hope.

  • Serena Joy advises to have sex with Nick to get pregnant because the Commander is sterile. In return she will show Offred a picture of her daughter

  • The commander takes Offred to a secret brothel called Jezebel’s. Offred sees Moira and learns about the whole story about the escape. Moira seems to have given up

  • Offred is Nick’s mistress; she falls in love with Nick

  • The new Ofglen reveals that she is not part of the resistance movement

  • Serena Joy discovers Offred's relationship with the Commander.

  • Offred is taken from the Commander’s house in a black van

  • Offred’s story becomes part of a symposium on Gileadean Studies

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