The Handmaids Offred Analysis

In chapter 41, it starts out with Offred saying how much she hates the story she is telling and that she wishes that it could be different and that it could be more civilized or happier. She gives a very graphic metaphor ¡°like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force¡±. This show just how much it pains her to tell this story and how gruesome and inhumane the story is to her. But then she goes on the say that she has tried to put in some good things that would make the story better. This shows that Offred is an optimistic person. She earns and tries her best to see some good when everything seems so evil. Offred tells her imagined listener that her story is almost too painful to bear, but that she needs to go on telling it because
Moira¡¯s compensation was Jezebel¡¯s. A place where she did not have to accept all of Gilead and its ideologies. Serena Joy had power over the Handmaid¡¯s, which she enjoys as well as the power that she had over most of the household. Each of these people complain and suffer in the story, but once they have that one thing that makes it seem alright, they just go with the flow.
Ch. 42 The Handmaids are herded into the Harvard yard to watch the Salvagings, 2 by 2. They are surrounded by ¡°heavy-contingent of guards, special-detail Angels, with riot gear¡±. Like everyday in Gilead, once again the Handmaids are surrounded by Gilead. They are being told that they are continuously watched that the government of Gilead knows what they are doing, and they will stop them, probably hurting them in the process. These riot police are not there for protection, they are there to keep the Handmaid¡¯s in line with what they usually use, which is fear. A salvaging is a mass execution, where people who do not follow Gilead are executed, or more rightly, murdered. They are always segregated. The name Salvaging is ironic because to salvage something means to save it but what they are doing is not saving the people at all. Like all