Offreds Narrative - What is the purpose and function of the Historical

Offreds Narrative - What is the usance and function of the Historical Notes and how do they go to your interpretation of the novel?The historical notes are not part of Offreds narrative, they are atranscript of a symposium held at a university in 2195 two hundredyears from where we left the end of Offreds excruciating tale. The adjudicate of these notes if any, is to put Offreds narrative into ahistorical purpose to help these academics understand the life ofGilead. It seems to me that another purpose of these historical notesis to get a very strong reaction in the readers who have followedthe worked up journey with the narrator Offred.The signifi hindquartersce of the university name Denay, Nunavit is thatAtwood took the name from a collection of population called Dene from CanadasNorth west territories and they are about to bring about the firstself-governing group of North American native people in an area calledNunavit. Atwood has chosen names such as Maryann crescent-sh aped Moon andJohnny Running Dog for the professors suggesting that the nativeAmericans overbear the honorary society which strongly contrasts with the whitemale-dominated patriarchy in the Gilead times in this time to come worldAtwood has made the white males become the vulnerable subjects of a con and nit the dominant rulers and scholars they once were. Alsothe name of the university sounds like the sentence discard None Of itsuggesting that Offreds story was all true despite what my be said ornot said in the historical notes.The purpose of the lecturer that Atwood created Professor James DarcyPieixto is to give readers a masculine affect of Offreds story which isironic due to the domineering and powerful roles that the males contendin Offre... ... see themselves progressive but holdthe seeds of patriarchal oppression. With Pieixtos appeal for someunderstanding feelings toward Gilead which was then followed by anapplause this besides suggests such moral ambivalence getting rea dy forsuch coming(prenominal) evils. Another purpose for these notes is also to show howacademics miss the point solely when looking at some historicalfacts and Atwood shows an example of this with these notes, how peoplecan be sending out the wrong message and doing false teachings. The refinement sentence Are there any questions? gives the story a debate open-ended conclusion, here I think Atwood wants readers todiscuss or at least think about the message she has just shown us,that the end of The Handmaids tommyrot is only the beginning of adiscussion of the issues raised in the story, of what bequeath our worldfinally become?