The Most Unorthodox Characters In The Handmaid's Tale

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Offred is one of the Handmaid’s in the Republic of Gilead. This used to be known as the United States of America but now it is Gilead, a theocratic state. Because of an issue that occurred, women lost all of their money and rights. Handmaid’s were then assigned to higher class couples that were unable to have children, that was the new job for the Handmaid’s. Offred was assigned to the Commander and Serena Joy, his wife. Offred was once married to a man named Luke and they had a baby girl together. When this issue started occurring and Offred lost her rights, her, Luke and their daughter tried to escape to Canada but were caught. Offred has not seen Luke or her daughter since that incident. In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the most unorthodox characters are Offred, Serena Joy, and The Commander. Her name was not always Offred, this name was given to her because it literally means “by Fred”. Offred is the main character and narrator of the book The Handmaid’s Tale. It is soon found out that Offred is very unorthodox. She is a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, but she can actually remember her life before everything happened. “It’s a Saturday morning in September, I’m wearing my shinning name. The little girl who is now dead sits in the back seat, wih her two best dolls, her stuffed rabbit, mangy with age and …show more content…

Unorthodoxy is a major issue in the Republic of Gilead. Many of the characters, including the main characters and some not so important characters are very unorthodox in many ways. The characters in the story think that they are living in a Utopia, but as the reader reads the book, they see it as more of a Dystopia. The people living in the United States today think that the world is getting better and closer to a Utopia, but some day the world may change to a Dystopia without the common human being able to control what is

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