Referat: The Handmaid's tale; Characterization of Offred
Characterization: Offred
Offred is one of the handmaids who have been trained in the Red Center. She is 33 years old and has to wear an ankle-length red dress with white wings around the face and red shoes. She has long brown hair because handmaids are not allowed to cut it. Because handmaids must not use cosmetics Offred steals butter from the breakfast and uses it as lotion for her face. Her best friend is Moira who is a handmaid, too. They got to know each other at college and always stick together.
Her task as a handmaid is nothing more than to become pregnant by Fred and to serve as such as a kind of “birth-giving-machine”. But of course it all happens as a consequence of force so that the reader is confronted with a character exclusively suffering in her new miserable life as a handmaid according to an extremely bad mood of hers throughout the whole story.
This way of living, to be only exploited with regard to her body, and the degrading treatment she suffers from for example, make her devalue herself and think about herself as nothing more but a thing, a ridiculous “fairytale figure” (p.19) comparable to a “rat” used for experiments (p.79) and a woman belonging to the “harem” (p.79) of this foreign man. These depressive thoughts even seem to create a kind of bravery not to be afraid of murdering the guilty ones of such life to take revenge, which you can see from her wish to have a have a knife one (cf. p.57).
But all in all, you can say that it is the wish and hope to come together with her family one day again that makes her keep going on living like that and which clearly is the reason for her will to survive all the torture she suffers from.
Offred has not always lived in this situation. In the old society she was a young woman, who comes from a very strange household, which was managed by her crazy hippie mother. She learned very hard to get a good job. Later she had an affair with Luke, who meets her in hotels to spend a little time with her. You can say that the relationship with Luke influenced her life so much that her past can be characterized by her love to Luke. The affair turns to a happy marriage after Luke got divorced and they became parents of a little girl. The past of Offred can be described as a very intact time with good social relationships and a nice family background.
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