Offred In The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

hat is the question”, that’s what Hamlet would remark about Offred in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. As the main character raises few queries on whether she is a heroine or not as her actions are abstract. The definition of the word ‘hero’ is someone who doesn’t think of themselves but others. Consider this, she is weak and meek like any other handmaids before her, ergo, there are no move big enough for the narrator to damage the society. Offred always considers what’s best for herself and is reluctant to act. Again, Offred is not a heroine. In the introduction of the story, prisoners are stuck in some sort of a makeshift asylum and the narrator “yearned for the future” (Atwood 3). The ‘future’ suggests liberation and Offred and others