The Commander - The Handmaid's Tale

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Personality

Role

  • He looks falsely innocuous
  • at traits attentive others he is passively demonstrating his dominance and power over Offred
  • The head of the household
  • Husband of Serena Joy
  • he is a high raking man who played a large role in the creation of Gilead
  • represents the patriarchal assumptions of Gilead
  • Makes Offred feeling with a value and loved

Development (Growth & change)

Other information              

  • the relationship that he has with Offred is a game of sexual politics in which he holds most of the power
  • However, he needs love as much as Offred needs it
  • Parallel between him and the Nazi Commander - Offred wants to humanize him but is implicit aware that he holds the real power in Gilead
  • The Commander and I have an arrangement
  • he is falsely innocuous
  • This is like being on a date
  • Circumstances have been altered. I can ask for something
  • To him I'm no longer merely a usable body
  • For him I must remember I am only a whim

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