The Powerful Life Of Offred In The Handmaid's Tale
In the recent book our class has been reading, The Handmaid’s tale, it follows
the life of Offred, a young Handmaid who is forced to do her job well; bear a child for the
current family she is with. As we watch her life through her words, we see that gets
conflicted quite a bit, even see the world in a harsher way. The readers also get
flashbacks of what Offred use to be before the country that was the United states gets
over taken and turned into Gilead. The new land is now harsh. Every woman gives a role
that they must stick by, no matter what they think. They are now tools and no longer
people unless one has money or power. But like stated, we are seeing the world from
Offred’s eyes and how she feels about it. She tells us sort of …show more content…
It even sounds like as if a friend of yours is telling you their story. It isn't straight
to the point, there are point outs of minor details that you shouldn't even realize. Atwood
must have also put in Offred’s flashbacks to show the reader that she did have a peaceful
life before this. One where she was free and had her family. Then the war began and
destroyed it all. Now she’s placed as a Handmaid to serve for this family.
When the Handmaids in training, they have aunts. Those are the women who
trained them. One woman who trained Offred was Aunt Lydia. She takes these women
and turns them into submissive workers. She believes that it is a perfect and holy world
that the ladies must live in. She is seen as quite manipulative, having the girls believe that
they were in the wrong. In Chapter 13, Janine is testifying to a rape that happens to her
before she is taken to the Red Center. As she testify, the Aunt has her stop and asks the
group who’s fault it had been. In all naturally, if it was today’s society, we would say it is
the guy’s fault since she was just walking. But here, the girls immediately say it’s her fault.
What’s even more is that they chant that it’s her fault and even to to lengths to call her
the life of Offred, a young Handmaid who is forced to do her job well; bear a child for the
current family she is with. As we watch her life through her words, we see that gets
conflicted quite a bit, even see the world in a harsher way. The readers also get
flashbacks of what Offred use to be before the country that was the United states gets
over taken and turned into Gilead. The new land is now harsh. Every woman gives a role
that they must stick by, no matter what they think. They are now tools and no longer
people unless one has money or power. But like stated, we are seeing the world from
Offred’s eyes and how she feels about it. She tells us sort of …show more content…
It even sounds like as if a friend of yours is telling you their story. It isn't straight
to the point, there are point outs of minor details that you shouldn't even realize. Atwood
must have also put in Offred’s flashbacks to show the reader that she did have a peaceful
life before this. One where she was free and had her family. Then the war began and
destroyed it all. Now she’s placed as a Handmaid to serve for this family.
When the Handmaids in training, they have aunts. Those are the women who
trained them. One woman who trained Offred was Aunt Lydia. She takes these women
and turns them into submissive workers. She believes that it is a perfect and holy world
that the ladies must live in. She is seen as quite manipulative, having the girls believe that
they were in the wrong. In Chapter 13, Janine is testifying to a rape that happens to her
before she is taken to the Red Center. As she testify, the Aunt has her stop and asks the
group who’s fault it had been. In all naturally, if it was today’s society, we would say it is
the guy’s fault since she was just walking. But here, the girls immediately say it’s her fault.
What’s even more is that they chant that it’s her fault and even to to lengths to call her