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Offred: The Handmaid's Tale

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Offred is a woman who has lived and was married before Gilead “in an age of readily available pornography, prostitution, and violence against women” (Plot Overview). She was captured and separated from her husband and child while trying to flee the country to Canada. Afterwards she was brought to the commander’s house in order to serve him as a handmaid. At the beginning, the girls were taken to the “Red Center” where they were instructed on how to become handmaids. Their supervisors were the so called Aunts who were teaching them how to behave and how to live in this new theocratic and totalitarian society: “Think of it as being in the army”, “Aunt Lydia said it was best not to speak unless they ask you a direct question”, “It’s not the husbands
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