Naistest, keda nüüd peeti abielurikkujateks, loodi reserv, kus nad pandi elama ühe katuse alla ja neid hakati ümber kasvatama. Nad võõrandadi oma endisest elust ning neile hakati selgitama nende uut funktsiooni rikastele laste sünnitamine. Raamatus keskendutakse ühe sellise naise mälestustele, kes räägib oma uuest elust ja võitlustest mida ta enda sees peab. Ta viiakse elama ühe komandöri juurde ning tema uueks nimeks saab Offred. Kuna komandöriga magades ei õnnestu tal rasedaks jääda, otsib ta abi komandöri autojuhi Nick'i juurest, kes on nõus talle oma abi pakkuma. Järglaste saamine on nii oluline, et need naised, kes rasestuda ei suuda, viiakse kas teise perekonda või koonduslaagrisse rasket tööd tegema. Raamat on kokku pandud kirjeldades Offredi heitlust naisena, kellelt on võetud kõik peale õudusunenägude ja mälupildikeste oma kunagisest perest. 2.1Teoses esilekerkinud probleemid:
thought. Dee may have been aware of Roger Bacon's own brief discussion of cryptography in the Epistle on the Secret Works of Art and the Nullity of Magic. He certainly had some knowledge of, and considerable interest in, cryptology, for in 1562, he bought for Sir William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth's great minister, a manuscript of Trithemius' "Steganographia," which had not yet been published and "for w°h a Thowsand Crownes have ben by others offred, and yet could not be obteyned," Dee spent ten days "with contynuall Labor and watch" in making himself a copy. It may be that Dee had somehow obtained the mysterious manuscript (possibly from the Duke of Northumberland, who pillaged many religious houses when Henry VIII broke up the monasteries, and with whose family Dee was associated), was told or assumed that it was Bacon's, tried to solve it, and, failing, made a gift of it to Rudolf, perhaps on behalf
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