Essays on Moira

The Handmaid’s Tale is a classic example of satire as the author employs this approach to ridicule various issues that she raises concerns about in his society. Atwood utilizes satire to highlight palpably comedic sets up of reality. The idea also includes, the utilization of exaggeration and irony to bring out an argument— the category in which the Atwood’s story fall. In particular, satire poses exaggerated situations, irony, and humor to criticize the society absurdity or values especially in respect to the contemporary politics and other sensitive issues. Through Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood has provided a creative ...

Offred is the storyteller and the leading role of the novel, and we are narrated to the whole tale from her opinion, recognizing happenings and reminiscences as vibrantly as she does. She narrates the chronicles as it occurs, and illustrates to us the journeys of her mind via flashbacks and parentheses. She is clever, insightful, and kind. She has sufficient liabilities to make her human, but not so numerous that she turns into an insensitive individual. She also entails a sinister sense of humor that is a cemetery wit that creates her accounts of the dreary terrors of Gilead tolerable, even ...

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Offred is a patronymic name meaning Of Fred – referring to the man that the woman is serving. Offred is of a class of individuals who are kept as concubines mainly for reproductive purposes by the ruling class. Offred lost her autonomy to her husband by indoctrinating into the life of a handmaid.

Since Offred’s main purpose in the life of the commander was for reproduction purposes, and the commander was sterile, she strikes a deal with the commander’s wife to have sex with her driver in an effort to get her pregnant.

Offred who is the protagonist was separated from her ...