Mayday and the Brotherhood

    Throughout The Handmaid's Tale, we're introduced to the underground resistance movement known as Mayday. This movement is shown to be very similar to the Brotherhood from 1984, as a kind of hidden movement that we never actually see. However, whereas the Brotherhood is shown to be either non-existent or too small to actually do anything, we never see the organization of Mayday. We only hear about it from different handmaids. Even at the end, it is unclear if Nick is working with Mayday or, similar to Mr. Charrington from 1984, a spy. This changes how we might think of Mayday. Perhaps Mayday is just a lie used to keep the handmaids in check. Depending on how we look at the end of the book we can see Nick as either tricking Offred or actually trying to help save her. Or perhaps even he is being tricked.