We discover that both are Offred's daughters. One, Agnes, is the daughter she was forced to give up when she became a handmaid. The other, Nicole, is the baby she is pregnant with at the end of the novel and gives birth to in the second series of the TV programme.
So, we have Agnes and Nicole as June/Offred's daughters in the show. And Agnes Jemima and Nicole/Daisy as the children of a handmaid in The Testaments. Which means that if you read the two books and the show together, then yes, the two young narrators of The Testaments are Offred's daughters.
Lydia thus enlists Agnes in their plan to get Nicole and the damning information out of Gilead. Agnes and Nicole pose as missionaries and make their escape into Canada, where Agnes finally meets her long-lost biological mother, the former Handmaid known as Offred.
Agnes, the adoptive daughter of Tabitha and Commander Kyle in the novel The Testaments. Agnes MacKenzie, the adoptive name of Hannah Bankole, June's eldest daughter in the television adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale.
The Handmaid's Tale season 5, episode 9 shares a shocking revelation regarding Agnes Mackenzie, also known as Hannah Bankole, June Osborne and Luke Bankole's estranged daughter who they have been trying to rescue since Gilead came to be.
Why was Hanna scared of June? In Universe Reasons: If June left, Hannah would be all alone in Gilead without family. She would be living the life that June and Serena fear for Nicole/Holly. Even a brief period in Gilead for regrouping purposes would feel like a betrayal of Hannah in June's mind.
At this point in The Testaments, Aunt Lydia has turned against Gilead and covertly feeds information to Hannah (known by her Gileadean name Agnes). Eventually, Hannah escapes Gilead with this information and is instrumental in bringing down the regime.
Before Gilead
Moira gives birth to a boy named Gavin as a surrogate and gives him to the new parents (the Wilsons) who eventually move back to England with him. She mentions to June that she is being paid $250,000 upon the birth of a healthy baby.
Despite seeming to be a true believer at the start of the story (at least in June's eyes, indicating that she might not always be a reliable narrator), Lydia is actually a part of Mayday, working against Gilead in the long game.
The childbirth scene is primal and intimate and prompts the women to confess their secrets: June tells Serena that she didn't kill her when she had the chance because she simply didn't want to, and Serena realizes she has been forced into essentially being a handmaid in the Wheelers house and begs June to take her baby ...
The Mayday operatives who took Daisy into their care convinced her to participate in a dangerous plan to infiltrate Gilead and retrieve a cache of top-secret documents from an anonymous, high-ranking source.
Lydia turns out to be the mastermind of Gilead's destruction: She's long served as a source for Mayday in Canada, readers discover, and it was she who crafted the plan to smuggle damaging information out of the country in order to ultimately weaken the Gilead regime's leadership.
The Handmaid's Tale Mrs. Keyes character is scheduled to have a hysterectomy, only for the doctors to find out that she's three weeks pregnant. Aunt Lydia proceeds to fiercely question the Handmaid, when Esther finally admits that she's pregnant because she was raped by Warren Putnam.
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There's a new Serena Joy Waterford in the fifth season of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. Not only has she been edged out of her protected position as the Wife of a powerful Commander, but as a single pregnant woman, she soon became a Handmaid.
References to the TV Series. Unlike in the novels, the logical equivalents of the novel characters in question do coincide in the TV show: Before becoming the Handmaid Offred, June is separated from her daughter Hannah, who is then adopted as Agnes by the MacKenzies, a loyal Commander's family.
Over the course of the novel we learn that mother and daughter were separated when they were caught trying to escape the country. While Offred was taken to the Red Center, her daughter was rehomed with an infertile couple.
In the end, though, Lydia can't triumph over that shame. It drives her to report Noelle to authorities for being an unfit mother—a decision that spurs Ryan to be separated from her.
Before Gilead
Lydia is the first in her family to attend college, and has to work "crappy" jobs throughout higher education. She later graduates and begins to work as a family court judge. Aunt Lydia had an abortion when she was young, and a brief marriage that was a mistake.
Aunt Lydia's relationship with Offred symbolises the oppressive control that Gilead has over women. Furthermore, by placing a woman in such a violent role, Atwood is suggesting that women can be and are complicit in perpetuating dangerous patriarchal ideas and oppressing other women.
In the story, an environmental disaster has led to most women becoming infertile, and the small number who are still able to become pregnant are forced to become handmaids, women who are owned by the ruling elite and systematically raped in order to provide them with children.
She is the wife of Luke Bankole and the mother of a young daughter, Hannah. She is also the mother of Nichole who she had with Nick in Gilead.
Rather than being married to Commanders, Econowives are fertile women who are married off to Gilead's more ordinary men. As well as being expected to have children, Econowives are expected to take care of their households, and they aren't assigned Marthas to help them.
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June shares the good news with Luke and Moira, excitedly telling them the U.S. Is planning a raid, and Hannah's going to be rescued and returned to them. While they hug, jump, laugh, and cry in celebration, the scene switches to Hannah, who's on the grounds of her school.
As the wedding approaches, Agnes is filled with dread, and contemplates suicide. Eventually, Aunt Lydia catches wind of Agnes's feelings, and asks her to reach out to Aunt Estée if she wishes to become a Supplicant of the Aunts. Agnes makes her way to her old school, and finds sanctuary at Ardua Hall.