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Grade 12 IEB English Home Language The Handmaid's Tale full summary, characters, themes, info and literary essay format

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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...

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Handmaid's tale - Margaret Atwood
Characters:

• Offred (Protagonist): Handmaid

• The Commander: Head of the household where Offred works as a Handmaid.

• Serena joy: The Commander’s Wife

• Moira: Offred’s best friend from college, she is a lesbian and a feminist.

• Aunt Lydia: She works at the “Red Center,” the re education center where Offred and other women go for

instruction before becoming Handmaids.

• Nick: He is a Guardian, a low-level officer of Gilead assigned to the Commander’s home, where he works as a

gardener and chauffeur.

• Ofglen: Another Handmaid who is Offred’s shopping partner and a member of the subversive “Mayday”

underground.

• Luke: Offred's husband pre-Gilead.




General Info:

• Genre: Speculative fiction (Fantasy, historical, horror)

• Dystopian literature

• Context & setting:

- Global events to recreate world of Gilead

- Cambridge, Massachusetts

- Aspects drawn from 1980 USA

- 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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