Offred - the handmaid's tale

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Personality

Role

  • protagonist
  • self - person narrator
  • passive
  • rebellious in her mind
  • She tries to detach herself from reality in order to survive
  • Handmaid - deprives her of an identity
  • to reproduce for the State
  • a foil to Ofglen - she does not fight, while Ofglen dies like a martyr
  • a foil to Moira - Moira is rebellious and goes openly against the system

Development (Growth & change)

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  • The individual is made part of the whole system and shares responsibility for every aspect of it
  • her refusal to be beaten by the regime
  • resilient, she remains cynical and refuses to believe the distorted doctrine
  • refusal to be silenced when she tells her story as a warning
  • she celebrates the past
  • love and human touch
  • freedoms
  • preciousness and fragility of what we take for granted
  • individual identity
  • reduction of women to their biological function and keep them silent and subservient
  • Celebration of love
  • She does not idealism her relationship with luke
  • her memories of Luke provide her with an image of herself as a lover, wife and mother
  • the relationship with the commander is purely a grotesquely a sexual one
  • lively sense of the self in the meetings with the Commander
  • His explanation of the Latin phrase shatters its mystical hope and charm for her, and she also learns of his affair with her predecessor
  • The love for Nick makes her rescue
  • Nick is the embodiment of Offred's sexual desire and hunger to be loved
  • Their love represents the forbidden combination of desire and rebellion which provides Offred with hope
  • Nick has a function of refuge for Offred

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