Can’t tell your Wives from your Marthas? Not sure why everyone keeps saying ‘Blessed Be The Fruit’? Check out this handy guide to TheHandmaidsTale's long list of terms and sayings ahead of its return tonight:
) nickname for her daughter, Hannah , who was taken from her when she was captured trying to escape Gilead in series one.This is essentially ‘hello’ in Gilead speak, and it’s usually met with the response “May The Lord Open” . Alongside being a greeting, it’s also meant to encourage fertility – aka, that a Handmaid will be ‘blessed’ with the ‘fruit’ of a child. Like many Gileadean phrases, it has biblical origins.
“Praise Be” is a term used to express thanks or gratitude for something, for example, after the birth of a child like Baby Nichole.The group responsible for devising the structure and beliefs of Gilead, and for orchestrating the coup that led to the fall of the United States government. They’re led by a group called ‘The Committee,’ who became responsible for governing Gilead after the group’s initial plan to establish the state succeeded.
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