Offred - Heroine or victim?

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Angela Topping
Offred - Heroine or victim?
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Prose: Modern prose
Resource type
Worksheet
Title
The Handmaid’s Tale
Time period
Post-1900
Genre
Modern
Author
Margaret Atwood

Students look at a number of key quotations from the novel, and decide whether each quotation portrays Offred as a heroine or a victim, or neither. They give each quotation a rating or 'score' and then discuss their ideas with a partner.

A great resource for stimulating lively class discussion and close textual analysis. 

Sample content 

Give Offred a rating in each column (from 0 to 5) depending on whether you think the quotation portrays her as a heroine or a victim, or neither. Then discuss your ratings with a partner.

'But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded into the sunlight.' Ch. 2

Heroine           
Victim     
Neither 

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