Feeling In The Handmaid's Tale

The narrator repeated the word “feel” to make her feelings clearer and to show its significance in the chapter. This is conveyed at the beginning of the chapter, when Offred sees the six dead bodies that have been hanged on the Wall. She illustrates Gilead has taken away her past and present when she says, “These bodies hanging on the Wall are time travelers, anachronisms. They’ve come here from the past” (Atwood 40). In making this comment Offred shows us that her feelings towards the dead bodies is blankness. The repetition of the word “feel” has an effect on Offred cannot have any emotion towards anything. It enhances the main idea of her fertility to an extent if she has feelings for anything, she will not give birth to a child and hand