Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale

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female protagonists. First we will study their unsettling surroundings in each document and more largely the scary alternative realities they evolve in, then we will analyze each character’s state of mind.

Margaret Atwood’s narrator and main character Offred, introduces the reader to the life of a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. The character is extremely aware of her surroundings, in this excerpt she carefully describes her room in the Commander’s home. A description so detailed, that it makes the reader embody the character and experience her surroundings through her eyes. The room’s furniture is sparse, apart from the bed, Offred enumerates a chair, a table and a lamp. Offred notices that the only window in the room only opens partly, she observes every detail, from the movement of the curtains to the highly polished wooden floor and the absent chandelier that has seemingly been removed to avoid the possibility of the handmaid committing suicide by hanging ...

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