Birth Day Offred Analysis
Offred experiences a dream within a dream, and then she wakes up
Before having breakfast, she thoroughly describes her feelings towards an egg
A siren on a red Birthmobile reaches the house
Offred and three other women in the van are on the way to witness Janine’s birthgiving
On the way, Offred flashbacks to some of Aunt Lydia’s lessons
After the red Birthmobile reaches Janine’s Commander’s house and Offred exists the van, a blue Birthmobile, for the Wives, arrives.
Offred then assumes that the Wives have gathered at Janine’s Commander’s house to see Janine's belly and gossiped about how bad their Handmaids are.
Continuation of “Birth Day”
Commander is nowhere in sight, and the doctors are only called in for emergencies
Ofwarren (Janine) is in the master bedroom, with two women by her side
Aunt Elizabeth stands by to help while the rest of the women (everyone from the district) sit cross legged and crowd around them
Remembers the biblical saying according to her ability; to each according to his needs
The narrator has a flashback of the weekly movies they used to watch back in the Rachel and Leah centre …show more content…
Offred enumerates the food served to the Wives as if staggered by what is being served but describes her meal blandly and abruptly. “Ham, cheese, oranges...” and fresh-baked breads,” which are served to the Wives, symbolizes the superior class, while the “milk and sandwiches, on a tray,” which is served to the Handmaids symbolizes the inferior class. Oranges, as said in the beginning of the story, symbolize luxury, and luxury, according to Oxford dictionary is “an inessential, desirable item that is expensive or difficult to obtain”. Thus, this further proves how lavish the Wives’ meal is compared to the Handmaids’ milk and sandwich; the sandwich’s components are not even mentioned, showing how poor the quality of the food
Before having breakfast, she thoroughly describes her feelings towards an egg
A siren on a red Birthmobile reaches the house
Offred and three other women in the van are on the way to witness Janine’s birthgiving
On the way, Offred flashbacks to some of Aunt Lydia’s lessons
After the red Birthmobile reaches Janine’s Commander’s house and Offred exists the van, a blue Birthmobile, for the Wives, arrives.
Offred then assumes that the Wives have gathered at Janine’s Commander’s house to see Janine's belly and gossiped about how bad their Handmaids are.
Continuation of “Birth Day”
Commander is nowhere in sight, and the doctors are only called in for emergencies
Ofwarren (Janine) is in the master bedroom, with two women by her side
Aunt Elizabeth stands by to help while the rest of the women (everyone from the district) sit cross legged and crowd around them
Remembers the biblical saying according to her ability; to each according to his needs
The narrator has a flashback of the weekly movies they used to watch back in the Rachel and Leah centre …show more content…
Offred enumerates the food served to the Wives as if staggered by what is being served but describes her meal blandly and abruptly. “Ham, cheese, oranges...” and fresh-baked breads,” which are served to the Wives, symbolizes the superior class, while the “milk and sandwiches, on a tray,” which is served to the Handmaids symbolizes the inferior class. Oranges, as said in the beginning of the story, symbolize luxury, and luxury, according to Oxford dictionary is “an inessential, desirable item that is expensive or difficult to obtain”. Thus, this further proves how lavish the Wives’ meal is compared to the Handmaids’ milk and sandwich; the sandwich’s components are not even mentioned, showing how poor the quality of the food