"The handmaiden's tale" by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale – in picturesA new Folio Society edition of Atwood's landmark dystopian novel is accompanied by striking illustrations from Anna and Elena Balbusso. Here are a selection

“[Dystopias are] Often more like dire warnings than satires, dark shadows cast by the present into the future. they are what will happen to us if we don’t pull up our socks.” -Margaret Atwood

This article greatly helped me visualise the contents of the story and remember the major events after I had read it.

I find these illustrations sad, difficult to look at, but highly evocative. These are mostly the same as what I visualised.

warmup exercise : individual extracts

studying isolated extracts from the book

the handmaid’s tale introduction notes :

notes on the context of the book

table of contents

Looking at the table of contents of the book:

Document sans titre

an analysis of chapter 1

chapters 2-6 :

An analysis of chapters 2-6 of the handmaid's tale

Offred bath scene

Notes on the bath scene in the handmaid's tale

Offred’s memories- chapter 7

A study of Offred's flashbacks in chapter 7

characters and symbols

symbols and characters class notes

ch14-16 questions

Answering questions on chapters 14-16 of the handmaiden's tale based off questions given in class

character study moira

an early character study of Moira in chapters 1-16

Noémie- handmaid's tale written work

Close analysis of 2 moments in the handmaid's tale

Offred's freedom

Essay "Offred's only freedom is that which her imagination provides"

relationships in the handmaid's tale

Relationships in the handmaid's tale

Chapters 19-23

Analysis notes on chapters 19-23