Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’ entwines stories narrated by three main female characters Aunt Lydia, Agnes, and Nicole (who is in the beginning known as Daisy). The stories happen in the place named Gilead which is established in USA in 21st century and previously described in Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’.
As a divorced judge Lydia is imprisoned with other ladies in an arena. Commander Judd and Aunt Vidala are decided to handpick Aunt Lydia, Elizabeth and Helena, after their suffering a long time of tarnished conditions and isolation in a ‘thank tank’. Commander Judd and Aunt Vidala handpicked them to make them Aunts, a first class gathering of women entrusted with making and supervising the laws and garbs overseeing Gilead’s women. Aunt Lydia and her kindred Aunts are stayed at Ardua Hall. Here they relish certain benefits encompassing perusing forbidden texts. In a covert manner, Aunt Lydia loathes Gilead, and is a high-set mole providing priceless insight to the Mayday obstruction.
Agnes, Offred’s elder daughter, experiences childhood in Boston, as the adopted daughter of Commander Kyle and Tabitha. Tabitha later kicks the bucket of sick well-being; the one has lovingly taken care of Agnes. She and her classmates, Becka and Shunammite planned to attend a first class preparatory school for the daughters of commanders. In the preparatory school, they are educated to run a family, nevertheless not to write or peruse. When Commander Kyle bereaved, he weds Paula, Commander Saunder’s widow. Paula detests Agnes, secures in Handmaid who conceives a child, Mark, for herself, and made arrangements for Agnes to be get married to a high-positioning Commander and the pioneer of The Eyes, Commander Judd.
Later Agnes discovers that Tabitha was not her own mother and she is the daughter of an absconded Handmaid. She attempts to get away from her organized marriage by turning into a Supplicant, a prospective Aunt. In that interest, she joins her school companion Becka. Becka was explicitly manhandled by her dental specialist father Dr.Grove, for many years, even when she was only four years old.
Afterward, Agnes is namelessly furnished with files featuring the defilement and false reverence at the core of Gilead, explicitly proof of infidelity among Commander Kyle and Paula and their killing of their Particular life partners. In the mean time, Daisy, Offred’s younger daughter, experiences childhood in Toronto’s Queen Street West with her adopted parents, Neil and Melanie. Her parents claim a second-hand clothes shop known as Clothes Hound. It is a front for the Mayday association’s underground system to sneak women out of Gilead. Daisy’s adoptive parents are killed by covert Gilead operatives on her 16th birthday. She has additionally acquired information about Mayday’s sneaking tasks. She is lively into covering up by a few Mayday operatives, encompassing Ada, Elijah, and George, who disclose that Daisy is really Baby Nicole whose arrival has been expected in Gilead. Coming up short on concealing spots for Nicole, she has been enrolled by the Mayday operatives in a mission penetrate Gilead so as to get significant insight from their puzzling mole.
Nicole acts like a road urchin named Jade under Garth's direction so as to be enrolled by the Pearl Girls, Gilead missionaries who draw foreign ladies to Gilead with the guarantee of a superior life. Garth's arrangement works, and Nicole is gotten by two Pearl Girls named Aunt Beatrice and Aunt Dove, who carry her to Gilead as a forthcoming Supplicant.
Nicole, who is hidden, set under the consideration of Agnes and Becka, who are currently named as Aunts Victoria and Immortelle. Auntie Lydia affirms that Jade is Nicole through a tattoo and uncovers her actual identity to Agnes and Becka. Aunt Lydia, uncovering herself as Mayday's mole, enrolls the three young ladies in a crucial sneak implicating fact about Gilead's elite into Canada. Nicole has entrusted with conveying the information inside a microdot on her tattoo. Auntie Lydia's arrangement is for Agnes and Nicole to enter Canada masked as Pearl Girls, with Nicole mimicking Becka. Disguised as Jade, genuine Becka is to stay at a recession. When Commander Judd finds out about Nicole's presence and plans to wed her so as to combine his political force, Aunt Lydia and the young ladies are compelled to rush their arrangements.
Under the guidance of Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole travel in a black car to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where they board a boat along the Penobscot River. They have been taken to a bigger vessel called the Nellie J. Banks, possessed by Captain Mishimengo, who is entrusted with sneaking them to Canada. Subsequent to arriving at Canadian waters, Agnes and Nicole head out on an inflatable to Campobello Island, where they are gotten by the Mayday opposition. Utilizing the information inside Nicole's microdot, the Canadian media releases outrageous fact about Gilead's elite, which prompts the alleged Ba'al Purge. It causes a military putsch that achieves the breakdown of Gilead and the consequent reclamation of the United States. The two girls Agnes and Nicole are brought together with their mother, Offred. Auntie Lydia later ends it all by overdosing on taken morphine as Gilead surrounds her. It is additionally uncovered that Becka kicked the bucket while stowing away in a reservoir to propagate the stratagem that Jade had absconded with a plumber.
With a metafictional epilogue, the story of ‘The Testaments’ finishes up, it is depicted as a halfway transcript of an international historical association conference. Professor James Darcy Pieixoto, at the thirteenth Symposium on Gileadean Studies, in 2197, read the occasions of the novel. During the lecture he addresses whether Aunt Lydia had written the Ardua Hall Holograph and he is very inquisitive about the personalities of Agnes, Nicole, and their Handmaid mother Offred.
