This aesthetic, in-depth, digital document summarises the entirety of Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'. It includes all characters and descriptions, general information about the novel, a full plot summary, all possible themes for literary essays, quotations and literary essay guidelines wit...
- Evanglican Christianity: homosexuality, scientific research, religious beliefs
• Gilead: Government that emerged as a totalitarian (Take total control) , patriarchal (Run by men) theocracy
(Run by religion)
, • Characteristics of a dystopia:
- Propaganda
- Restrictions
- Figurehead/concept worship
- Under constant surveillance
- Fear of outside world
- Dehumanised state
- Natural world is banished/destroyed
- Own hierarchy, rituals & language
- Society is an illusion of perfect utopian world
• Epigraph (beginning of novel)
• Epilogue (end of novel)
• Legislation in Gilead:
- Women's bank accounts frozen
- Money transferred to husband
- Women can't have jobs
- Women can't own property
- Women lose the right to abortion and birth control
- Arranged marriage
- Women not allowed to read or write
Summary of novel:
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United
States of America. Because of dangerously low reproduction rates, Handmaids are assigned to bear children for
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