Agnes is arranged to be married to Commander Judd, now a high-ranking official in charge of the Eyes and surveilling the population of Gilead. Desiring a child for herself, she acquires a Handmaid, who successfully conceives but later dies giving birth to a son. Once widowed, Commander Kyle marries Paula, the widow of a deceased Commander, who despises Agnes. Agnes and her classmates Becka and Shunammite attend an elite preparatory school for the daughters of Commanders, where they are taught to run a household, but not to become literate. Agnes has a loving relationship with Tabitha, who later dies of ill health. In secret, Aunt Lydia despises Gilead and becomes a mole supplying critical information to the Mayday resistance organization.įifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, a girl named Agnes Jemima is growing up in Boston as the adopted daughter of Commander Kyle and his wife Tabitha.
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The Aunts use Ardua Hall as their headquarters and enjoy certain privileges that include reading "forbidden" texts, such as Cardinal John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua. After enduring weeks of squalid conditions and solitary confinement, she and a small group of other women are handpicked by Commander Judd and Vidala, a pre-existing supporter of Gilead, to become Aunts-an elite group of women tasked with creating and overseeing the laws and uniforms governing Gilead's women. Lydia, a divorced judge, is imprisoned with other women in a stadium during the establishment of Gilead. The novel alternates among the perspectives of three women, presented as portions of a manuscript written by one (the Ardua Hall Holograph) and testimonies by the other two. 2.2 Agnes Jemima (Aunt Victoria/Witness 369A).
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