All 6 Uses of
Quakers
in
The Handmaid's Tale
- "Five members of the heretical sect of Quakers have been arrested," he says, smiling blandly, "and more arrests are anticipated."†
Chpt 14 *Quakers = members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
- Two of the Quakers appear onscreen, a man and a woman.†
Chpt 14
- I also believe that they didn't catch him or catch up with him after all, that he made it, reached the bank, swam the river, crossed the border, dragged himself up on the far shore, an island, teeth chattering; found his way to a nearby farmhouse, was allowed in, with suspicion at first, but then when they understood who he was, they were friendly, not the sort who would turn him in, perhaps they were Quakers, they will smuggle him inland, from house to house, the woman made him some hot coffee and gave him a set of her husband's clothes.†
Chpt 18
- Q, it said, which meant Quaker.†
Chpt 38Quaker = a member of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
- The other house was Quakers too, and they were pay dirt, because they were a station on the Underground Femaleroad.†
Chpt 38Quakers = members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
- They weren't all Quakers, some of them weren't even religious.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)