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Essay Archive - Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred
The creation of Offred, the passive narrator of Margaret Atwood's
The Handmaid's Tale, was intentional. The personality of the narrator in
this novel is almost as important as the task bestowed upon her. Atwood
chooses an average women, appreciative of past times, who lacks imagination
and fervor, to contrast the typical feminist, represented in this novel by
her mother and her best friend, Moira.
Atwood is writing for a specific audience, though through careful
examination, it can be determined that the intended audience is actually
the mass population. Although....
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