Offred

Offred

1. Shows the reader the perspective of some of the handmaids. Their thought process, and everything they go through and do as a handmaid.

2. Narrator of the book

3. Shows the position of women within the regime.

4. She represents the want to get out of the regime and rebel against it.

5. Protagonist of the novel

6. Former wife of Luke and lover of Nick

7. Best friends with Moira

8. In her thoughts she is rebellious but she seems to obey the laws of Gilead to any outsiders.

9. Chapter 1 -The opening of the novel, which sets the tone and shows the point of view of Offred as a handmaid

10. Chapter 23- Offred plays scrabble, delightful freedom for Offred, Psychological survival

11. Chapter 25 - Serena Joys garden, shows patriarchal Gilead and shows Offred as a sensual woman

12. Chapter 45 - Offred is overwhelmed by the fear of the regime. Offred pleads for survival

13. Offred's narrative is discontinuous - Atwood "Details, episodes separate themselves from the flow of time in which they are embedded

14. Her role in the novel is the story teller, and rebels against the state. The asyndetic list "Subversion, sedation, blasphemy, heresy" shows how she defies the oppression put on her by the state, This rebellious attitude of the protagonist is conventional of the fantasy genre

15. Homodiegetic narration

16. has a daughter with Luke, this relationship exists in her memory.