Characters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Flashcards
(30 cards)
Offred
- Handmaid
- Has a child + husband
- Homewrecker
- Passive
- Grinded down
- Victim
- Manipulative
Serena Joy
- Created the system
- Rebellious (sex + cigs = desperate)
- Spiteful
- Jealous
The Commander
- Patriarch
- In control
- Careless
- Potentially infertile
- Hypocrite
Nick
- Guardian
- Mysterious
- Reckless
- Rebel (?)
- Ambitious (takes advantage)
Ofglen
- Rebel
- Careful
- Mayday
- Suicide before caught
- Selfless
Aunt Lydia
- Misguided
- Manipulated/ive
- Abusive
- Religious (fanatic)
Moiraaaaaaaaa
- Handmaid -> Jezebel
- Determined
- Gave up on rebellion
- Lesbian
- rebellious
Janine
- Handmaid (Ofwarren)
- Brainwashed
- Desperate
- Gets pregnant (unbaby)
- Goes crazy
Okonkwo
- Protagonist
- Proud
- Agressive
- Traditiona;ist
- Igbo warrior
- Fears weakness
- Hates change (colonial influences)
Ekwefi
Second wife of Okonkwo, mother of Ezinma
Loving
Loyal
Many child deaths
Ezinma
Okonkwo’s favourite daughter
Intelligent
Perceptive
Okonkwo wishes she was a boy
Obierika
Okonkwo’s best friend
Thoughtful
Reflective
Ikemefuna
Adopted son
Lives with Okonkwo for 3 years
Peace offering (war)
Pivotal moment -> death
Nwoye
Okonkwo’s son
Sensitive
Introspective
Disapproved of by his papa
Mr Brown
Missionary
Respectful
Compassionate
Failing health -> England
Reverend James Smith
Missionary
Strict
Asshole
Replaces Mr Brown
Mollie Ralston
Co-owner of Monkswell Manor
Hostess
Nervous
Guilty
Giles Ralston
Mollie’s husband
protective
co-host
Jealousy
Mr Paravicini
Mysterious guest
playful
foreign
Trickster
suspicious
Mrs Boyle
Older
Fussy
critical guest
Killed by strangulation
Judgemental
Christopher Wren
Young guest
Odd
Nervous
Hiding from something
Miss Casewell
Blunt
Masculine
Trauma
Indepedent
Corrigan family
Major Metcalf
Retired army officer
practical
Amiable
Srgt Trotter
Detective
Actually George Corrigan
Avenge his sister’s death
Authoritative
Observant
