The Handmaid's Tale - Novel Study

Class Reading Log 2021

Link to the Audiobook

Link to the 1990 Film Adaptation directed by Volker Schlondorff.

Novel Study - The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood - Author's Inspiration and Purpose

Margaret Atwood on the real-life events that inspired The Handmaid's Tale.

Margaret Atwood on what The Handmaid's Tale means in the Age of Trump.

Margaret Atwood on how she came to write The Handmaid's Tale.

Emma Watson interviews Margaret Atwood about The Handmaid's Tale.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This video is a half hour interview from 1986, which is interesting because it gives an historical look into the political context at the time the novel was published.

11 minute interview from 2018, with references to Trump's America.

This 14 minute interview with TV1's Kate Nichol-Williams was recorded when Atwood visited NZ in 2020.