Handmaids Tale Loss Of Identit
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Offred’s Lost of Identity
The main character of this book is Offred, one of the faceless many of the new Republic of Gilead. Each day she is removed farther and farther from her true self, to a complete no one. Expected to feel nothing, think nothing, and want nothing, she is used only as ....
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.... little girl she doesn’t even exist anymore. To protect herself in her new world, she is forced to hide beneath a submissive, obedient, and mindless mask, yet more and more each day, the mask becomes her real face.
When revolution occurred in the United States, the narrator was not yet known as Offred. Only after they relinquished her job, family, and past, and she no longer had much of an identity left, did they finally remove her name. With a name comes a person’s identity, an ....
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Word count: 519
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
