The Handmaid’s Tale

Book • 1998 • Drama  

Report
This book contains 5 potentially triggering events.
Removes Ads!
Chapter
Your Triggers
Does the dog die?
168 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Unanswered Triggers
Were animals harmed in the making?
61 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is there pedophilia?
57 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is a minor sexualized?
56 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is there excessive gore?
44 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is there bestiality?
44 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Yes
0
No
0
Is rape mentioned?
39 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
37 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Are rabbits harmed?
35 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Abuse
Is someone stalked?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
2
No
1
Is there domestic violence?
44 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Is someone gaslighted?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Is a child abused?
59 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
2
Addiction
Yes
0
No
3
Is there addiction?
6 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Animal
Does a horse die?
49 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
87 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
1
Are animals abused?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
2
Yes
0
No
3
Is there a dead animal?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
2
Does a cat die?
1 supporters
Yes
4
No
1
1
Amanda2
Yes! The main character and her husband literally murder their cat!
1 comment | Add comment
Does a dragon die?
16 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Are there spiders?
26 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Are there bugs?
0 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Assault
Is someone sexually assaulted?
93 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
16 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there cannibalism?
21 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is someone burned alive?
20 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is someone buried alive?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there amputation?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does a head get squashed?
28 supporters
Add comment
Yes
2
No
1
Is there a hanging?
18 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
Are any teeth damaged?
0 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does someone break a bone?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
40 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there finger/toe mutilation?
26 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
3
Is someone tortured?
52 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Is there eye mutilation?
51 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Children
Does a kid die?
0 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
2
Family
Is someone kidnapped?
6 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
Does someone cheat?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Fear
Are there jumpscares?
27 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is someone possessed?
7 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Are there clowns?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there a shower scene?
5 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does someone vomit?
54 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does someone spit?
7 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
3
Is there audio gore?
26 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
2
Mental Health
Is there body dysmorphia?
14 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Yes
3
No
0
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
3
No
0
Noxious
Does a baby cry?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
11 supporters
Yes
3
No
0
0
Anonymous
Stillborns and birth defects are mentioned to be endemic in this world, though no babies born in the story are stillborn.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there childbirth?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
Are there abortions?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does someone miscarry?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Does a pregnant person die?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Prejudice
Yes
2
No
1
Sex
Is there sexual content?
29 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
4 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3