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The Handmaid's Tale Study Guide & Essays
Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985) reveals the strange new world of Gilead. Once the United States of America, Gilead was formed by a military coup that shot the President and members of Congress, suspended the Constitution, and put a Christian Theocracy in the place of a…
The Handmaid's Tale study guide contains a biography of Margaret Atwood, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
- Short Summary
- About The Handmaid's Tale
- Character List
- Glossary of Terms
- Major Themes
- Summary and Analysis of I: Night - II: Shopping
- Summary and Analysis of III: Night - IV: Waiting Room
- Summary and Analysis of V: Nap - VI: Household
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- Social Commentary in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
- The Roles of Women in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
- Gilead's Greatest Hits: Volume One
- Language as a Form of Power In The Handmaid's Tale
- Are Winston, Julia and Offred eventually made into ‘reluctantly-selfish’ victims of totalitarian regimes or are they innately ‘pragmatically-selfish’ beings? Discuss in relation to The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984,
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I have picked The Handmaids Tale as my personal study book. Basically I can write an essay about anything. Anyone have any good ideas about which aspect of the book to write about? (Characters, themes etc.)
Trying to write an essay on Atwood's use of language, mentioned: neologisms, inversed connatations, idioms, and field specific vocab Is there anything else to write bout?
I have to write an essay on Speculative fiction vs science fiction regarding the handmaids tale. Has anyone got any ideas about it at all?
what would be a good alternative ending
