The HANDMAIDS TALE CHARACTERS

OFFRED

• derived name from current commander and uses memories of husband and daighter to carry her through 
• her individuality erased 30 and potentially still fertile 
• victim of gilead in sexist ideology
• resists being reduced this way in her narrative 
• keeps name internally but revelas to nick 
• retains psychological freedom
• layered image of past and present LIEK A PALIMPSET
• simultanously inhabits two spaces-handmaid and happier memories 

HER LIVELY CURIOSITY 

• very repsonsive to world around her 
• response to commanders wifes garden=emotiunal and poetic as notes all seaonal chnages in detail and repesent fertility of natural world 
• such is forbidden in gilead but her oservations=her resistance 
• 'something subversive about this garden' 'sense of buried things bursting upwards'
• 'ive tried to put some goood things i 'like flowers'-vocab=use of ntural imagery contrasts with polluted world of…