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Who Is The Protagonist In The Handmaid's Tale

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In the novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, by Margaret Atwood, the story follows the protagonist, named Offred is an handmaid, the duty that was granted upon her were to act as an birthing vessel for Wives, who were not capable of giving birth or that have babies born with a deformity.; in chapter one, Offred explains the time she had to spend in the makeover gymnasium, with other women, who are in the same predicament as she is.Offred goes further to explain how their daily life had been like, the women were forbidden from talking with each others, and they watched over by Aunt Elizabeth and Aunt Sara, the women were given two walks around the former football field, surrounded by an chain-linked fence that was topped with barbed wire, to prevent
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