The Handmaid’s Tale Essays

12th Grade

The Handmaid's Tale

The human world is shaped by hierarchies and power. There are strata of influence through which people of influence and authority are able to suppress and control those who are ranked beneath them in terms of their social function and prestige....

12th Grade

The Handmaid's Tale

All societies must develop some form of social order to be able to function. Often times, the society’s government determines the foundations for social order by creating rules, institutions, or practices that group people more effectively....

The Handmaid's Tale

When the general public studies and analyzes fiction, the plot, exposition of characters, climax, and resolution seemingly serve as the "critical" elements highlighted in its evaluation. Provocative literature, however, employs several less...

The Handmaid's Tale

Camus wrote that “the world is ugly and cruel, but it is only by adding to that ugliness and cruelty that we sin most gravely”.

Dystopian novels can be both a mirror and a magnifying glass, reflecting our world and exaggerating aspects of it to...

11th Grade

The Handmaid's Tale

Kindness, when given out, is habitually expected to be returned. More often than not it is seen that kindness, in fact, is given so that something else of value may be returned. Kindness is often exchanged for similar invaluable things like...

College

The Handmaid's Tale

In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred describes her life as a concubine in a dystopic and patriarchal world, where fertile women are forced to provide children to their corresponding commanders. Most notably, women are not permitted to...