Based on the same-titled 1985 Margaret Atwood novel, Bruce Miller’s The Handmaid’s Tale had its Hulu debut in 2017 and has since received positive reviews from critics with each subsequent season. The series’ complicated, intertwined political and personal lives of its primary cast are expected to be resolved in season fifth, which premiered on Hulu on September 14. Fans of the Emmy-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale were eager to watch the new season as soon as it started to stream on Hulu and speculate about the potential new plotlines with intriguing theories as well as look forward to the various twists and turns that June Osborne will have to deal with in the show.
A young Guardian by the name of Jaeden gives June and Luke important information about Hannah and a window into a young person’s existence in Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale season 5, episode 5. The Handmaid’s Tale has always been centred on June’s quest to save her daughter; the first episode opens with Hannah being abducted by Guardians shortly after Gilead’s ascent. Since then, the programme has revealed details regarding Hannah and her whereabouts, but in the end, June decided to leave Gilead for Toronto because she correctly understood that she would be more effective in rescuing her daughter and overthrowing Gilead outside of its boundaries.
In The Handmaid’s Tale season 5, episode 5, June travels closer to Gilead than she has in a while when they cross into No Man’s Land with Luke. The two enter the woods in the hopes of exchanging information with Jaeden, a young Guardian who supports the rebellion. Hannah has had a far more comfortable existence than Jaeden. She has benefited from affluence as Commander MacKenzie’s daughter, shielding her from the atrocities of the country that kidnapped her from her true mother.
The varied ways that people have been raised in Gilead are highlighted by Jaeden joining the resistance and serving as a soldier for Gilead. Although Hannah is unaware of it, her destiny in The Handmaid’s Tale is just as bleak as Jaeden’s. It takes Hannah a lot longer than it does Jaeden to begin to understand the full horrors of Gilead, and it only happens because she is trying to protect herself. Hannah relocates to Ardua Hall to become an aunt rather than a wife as mentioned in the novel and there she learns of Gilead’s crimes through documents that were secretly delivered to her by an unnamed source. Hannah’s transformation happens gradually; she is not pressured to mature as quickly as Jaeden was, and Gilead has not subjected her to the same war crimes.