Season
The Handmaid's Tale Season 1
by Margaret Atwood, The Commander, Joseph Fiennes, Offred, Elisabeth Moss and 123 others
Season One Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – with one goal: to survive and find the daughter who was taken from her.
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Characters
“Please, God, I don't want pain. I don't want to be a doll, hung on the wall. I want to keep on living. I'll do anything. Resign my body freely to the uses of others. I'll sacrifice. I'll repent. I'll abdicate. I'll renounce.”
— Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
“A perfect gift. A girl trapped in a box. She only dances when someone opens the lid, when someone else winds her up. If this is a story I'm telling, I must be telling it to someone. There's always someone, even when there's no one. I will not be that girl in the box.”
— Margaret Atwood, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
“You can't change anything about this. It's going to end the same no matter you do what so there's no point trying to be tough or brave. Brave isn't any part of this. Everybody breaks.”
— Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Nick Blaine, Max Minghella, imdb.com
Tagged: Bravery
“Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Constitution, we didn't wake up then either. They said it would be temporary. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually…”
— Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
“I want to tell her that Ofglen is not my friend, that I've exchanged barely fifty words with her in the two months since I got here. I kind of want to tell her that I sincerely believe that Ofglen is a pious little shit with a broomstick up her ass.”
— Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com