Interesting Facts

The university mentioned in historical notes, University of Denay, Nunavit, is a play on the sentence 'deny none of it'.

Offred is compared to Eurydice, a passing figure who cannot give us all the answers we wish to know, only what she is willing to show.

'The Sons of Jacob' refers to the biblical story in which Jacob creates his own godly race as god's chosen people.

The aunts took names from common commercial products available at that time, particularly to women, to create the sense of comfort and familiarity.

Many commanders were sterile due to a disease created by the pre- Gilead experiments originally designed to attack the officials in Moscow but ended up being too severe.