“If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission” (Feldman). This quote helps represent the characters in the book The Handmaid’s Tale. This book is about Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. During the book, Handmaid’s jobs are to have children for couples that are having trouble conceiving. She just like many others want to escape to freedom Canada, but at the end of the book Offred gets taken away by two men. She does not know if she is being rescued or arrested.
In the book, The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood, it is clear that Offred, The Commander, and Moira are unorthodox.
Offred, the main character, is a very unorthodox woman. …show more content…
Unlike the typical Commander of this society, The Commander of where Offred works as a Handmaid is very sympathetic towards her. He, like stated above, gives Offred magazines to read, but that is not all her does for her. During countless office visits, The Commander and Offred play friendly games of the popular board game Scrabble:
“I’d like you to play a game of Scrabble with me,” he says. I hold myself absolutely rigid. I keep my face unmoving. So that’s what’s in the forbidden room! Scrabble! (Atwood 138) This quote helps show that The Commander truly does care about Offred. He also shows that he cares about her by secretly giving Offred hand lotion in an unmarked bottle:
On the fourth evening he gave me the hand lotion, in an unlabeled plastic bottle. It wasn’t very good quality; it smelled faintly of vegetable oil. No Lily of the Valley for me. It may have been something they made up for use in hospitals, on bedsores. But I thanked him anyway. (Atwood 159)
Although there is a high risk of Offred getting caught with that mysteries bottle, she appreciates the kind gestures that The Commander does for her. Just like The Commander and Offred, Moira does not like to follow the
In the book, The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood, it is clear that Offred, The Commander, and Moira are unorthodox.
Offred, the main character, is a very unorthodox woman. …show more content…
Unlike the typical Commander of this society, The Commander of where Offred works as a Handmaid is very sympathetic towards her. He, like stated above, gives Offred magazines to read, but that is not all her does for her. During countless office visits, The Commander and Offred play friendly games of the popular board game Scrabble:
“I’d like you to play a game of Scrabble with me,” he says. I hold myself absolutely rigid. I keep my face unmoving. So that’s what’s in the forbidden room! Scrabble! (Atwood 138) This quote helps show that The Commander truly does care about Offred. He also shows that he cares about her by secretly giving Offred hand lotion in an unmarked bottle:
On the fourth evening he gave me the hand lotion, in an unlabeled plastic bottle. It wasn’t very good quality; it smelled faintly of vegetable oil. No Lily of the Valley for me. It may have been something they made up for use in hospitals, on bedsores. But I thanked him anyway. (Atwood 159)
Although there is a high risk of Offred getting caught with that mysteries bottle, she appreciates the kind gestures that The Commander does for her. Just like The Commander and Offred, Moira does not like to follow the