How To Write A Literary Analysis Offred's Independence

This passage points out an explicit theme that has been forever playing a dominating role in our humanity. A role, that coexists with freedom and the drastic methods of achieving it. In this particular story, Offred is envious of the few privileges that Serena Joy has; privileges that go from being able to care for her OWN garden as well as knit. Offred in this prison-like society, unfortunately, doesn’t get such esteemed “gifts”, if one can even call that. She feels that although the wives don’t necessarily have the complete freedom to do whatever, they have the ability to set mini goals for themselves. Offred, in a sweet and adorable way, perceives the wives’ action to knit and give away their creation to others, worthwhile. Worthwhile, in the sense that they too have the liberty to be something more than just a fertility machine. …show more content…
The one thing that is, pregnancy. She finds herself consuming all her energy into the possibility of bearing a strong and healthy child, keeping in mind that it’s only a possibility. Day in and day out, she becomes so heavily induced into this idea that if she doesn’t bear a child then it’s off to the colonies. The colonies that resemble itself as “another hell”. In a way, Offred sees her only chance of freedom is by giving the Commander and Serena Joy, their most precious gift. Nonetheless, any reader can witness such humiliating and heartbreaking tasks that such handmaids have to do, in order to taste a minimal sense of