Moira - The Handmaid's Tale

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Personality

Role

  • rebellious
  • fights the regime
  • More conventionally seen as an heroine
  • ideal to Offred - provides her with comfort and a sense of safety through her presence
  • Moira is linked to the Handmaid of the message in the cupboard
  • Moira is linked to Offred's Mother
  • Contrast with Offred - Moira is courageous

Development (Growth & change)

Other information              

  • Moira is defeated at the end of the novel - Jezebel's weakens her personality
  • her motives to escape are selfish and she never seeks to bring down the regime
  • There is a Bomb in Gilead
  • Moira had a bad reputation
  • She is a cunning and dangerous woman
  • What I hear in her voice is indifference, a lack of volition
  • Moira was our fantasy

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