She is confined to her home and forced to take in a
Serena Joy Waterford
A deeply religious woman, Serena authored a book titled A Woman's Place, an anti-feminist, right-wing look into a woman's 'biological destiny' as child-bearers. She became a motivational speaker, where she framed fertility as a moral solution to the plummeting birth rates.
Even though she's living in a world she helped create, Serena is unhappy because she's powerless. She's limited herself to the house, to a domestic life, where she serves her husband and has no autonomy or power of her own.
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 ...
She is Lonely
With her life skimming on the edge of servitude and a type of freedom in Gilead, Serena ultimately has no one to rely on, rather just those to exchange pleasantries with or those in her household dynamic (who don't care for her much).
Serena staying in Gilead was never an option for her for several reasons, the first being that her husband is a known traitor. It's likely that the Commanders at least assume that she is a traitor, too, although they have yet to indicate whether they know this. Serena also being pregnant and unwed is another factor.
Though the Commander's wife, Serena Joy, had been an advocate for "traditional values" and the establishment of the Gileadean state, she is bitter at the outcome. She is confined to her home and forced to take in a Handmaid to try to conceive a child with her husband.
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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.
It is revealed that this Offred, like her successor, was coerced into an emotional affair with the Commander and that Serena was infuriated when she found out. Shortly after, the Handmaid hanged herself from the chandelier in her room, with her body being discovered by Cora, one of the two Marthas inside the house.
Here, Offred describes the irony of Serena Joy's clear bitterness from living in a world that she helped create. Women are not allowed to read or write, or have any power, so Serena Joy can do nothing but stay at home as she once preached that all women should do.
No. A horrible personality is not the same as a personality disorder. Serena Joy knew exactly what she was doing. She didn't like the results, but that was her mistake, not a sign of mental illness.
Following Fred's death, Serena initially believed she could become an international flag-bearer for Gilead values. That's not how things have worked out. Once she was forced to move in with the Wheelers, it became apparent pretty quickly that her only currency was her child.
Even though Serena had written books supporting Gilead before they went into power she too faced brutal punishment. This was seen during season two after she rebelled and read a Bible verse out loud, as a result, the top of Serena's pinky finger was amputated.
The Waterfords were previously believed to both be infertile. Fred had failed to get both June and a previous handmaid pregnant, despite many attempts even outside Gilead's "ceremony". Serena was shot in her lower abdomen by a protester in the days before Gilead, and her injuries damaged her reproductive organs.
Noah Waterford is a character in The Handmaid's Tale. He is the son of Serena Waterford and Fred Waterford.
A Purely Strategic Decision
Serena is not being benevolent by letting June go. Although Serena is far from a saint, she isn't stupid. She just knows June can be of some help to her in a different capacity. Maybe she just wants June to be her ally instead of her enemy, because June is a strong one, one way or the other.
Then, later, when Rita is over at her house, June can't stop talking about all the horrendous stuff Serena did to Rita. After that, she tells Luke about sending the finger to Serena and he tells her she needs to stop obsessing over Serena so that she can be there for her family. Serena makes her grand return to Gilead.
Way back in the show's very first season, we learned exactly how Gilead was formed. More importantly, though, we learned that Serena was one of the primary driving forces behind the theocratic misogynist society.
Yes! This is Serena's second baby. Serena had her first child, her daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr., in September 2017.
Nichole Holly Osborne, temporarily named Nichole Waterford, is the biological baby daughter of Nick Blaine and June Osborne. She was initially named Holly by her mother when giving birth (after her maternal grandmother) and renamed Nichole by the Waterfords.
Tennis legend Serena Williams confirmed she is pregnant with her second child at the Met Gala on Monday.
Serena Joy Waterford is the secondary antagonist of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, as well as its film and TV series adaptation. She is the cruel, fanatically religious wife of Fred Waterford, the dictator of Gilead, a far-right theocracy in the future United States.
So, to Luke's horror, she decides to turn herself in to the Canadian government. Is June really going to prison? Of course not. Apparently, Fred's murder was committed in a sort of no-man's-land of disputed territory between Gilead and Canada, so technically, June has broken no laws.
No. Sex is only performed to reproduce and thats what the Handmaids are for.