Discuss this Extract in Relation to the Narration of the Nov

(First person non linear self reflexive narration)

The handmaid’s tale is a first person non-linear self-reflexive narrative and this extract portrays this very well.

The very first line of the extract shows us that this is a self-reflexive narrative as it says;

“This is a reconstruction. All of it is a reconstruction. It’s a reconstruction now,”

As it is how she has perceived these happenings in her life, it also show the way in which she steps out of the narrative and almost talks to the reader rather than just telling what has happened. How she feels now, that it is all a “reconstruction” which Is no longer. Also her use of “reconstruction” is through out the novel. Which leads me to my next point, that it also shows that because it is first person and self reflexive the integrity and reliability is questioned because of all the “reconstruction”, an ideal quote is also in the extract which shows this idea of unreliability

“It’s impossible to say a thing exact, you always have to leave something out…”

This shows that the first person self reflexive narrative has its twist of maybe not being all the truth or missing subj

To conclude this extract shows evidence of the narration being first person non-linear self reflexive, and shows the styles of Margaret Atwood, and it helps portray Offred’s thought’s and feelings and what happened to her in Gilead.

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, Margaret Atwood, self reflexive, integrity reliability questioned, let’s stop intend, stop intend here”, person self reflexive, person non-linear, short word that”, person self, correcting self, self-reflexive narrative, power power, person narrative, chapter thirty, short word, “it’s impossible,