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Below are articles which will support your interpretations, analysis and contextual understandings of the novel, The Handmaid's Tale. Read the articles carefully, choosing key quotations to draw on and use them to develop your own interpretations. If you are planning to quote any of these critics, make sure you note down their names! Some of these articles are 10+ pages so try to chunk your reading so that you are able to make clear and effective notes.

Irony in THT.docx

Resistant Female Voice in THT.docx

Opression-in-AHMT.pdf

The Aunts as an Analysis of Feminine Power.pdf

Narration in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale – Part 1In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, aspects of Offred's narration repeatedly destabilise and undermine any sense of certainty that what she is describing is what actually happened within the storyworld. Some readers may feel that these aspects of her narration create the impression that Offred is an unreliable na

Narration in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale – Part 2This is Part 2 of a pair of posts on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Both posts explore how aspects of Offred's narration destabilise and undermine any sense of certainty that what she is describing is what actually happened within the world of the story. The two posts use teaching activities drawing on concepts

Margaret Atwood on the real-life events that inspired The Handmaid’s Tale and The TestamentsDuring a trip to her archives in Canada, the author reveals which historical events shaped the world we now know as Gilead.

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