Weblinks and videos for use with 12093 – The Handmaid's Tale: A Level Advanced Learner Pack
The Handmaid's Tale - A Historical Timeline with Some Key Contextual Dates and Themes
Activities- Introduction: What is Democracy in America?
- East Germany
- Margaret Atwood
- 'The Seventies': Feminism makes waves
- Activism and the Women’s Liberation Movement (British Library archive temporarily unavailable)
Notes on Genre and Form
The Handmaid's Tale and Women's Writing
Questions and ActivitiesThe Handmaid's Tale and Dystopian Fiction
Questions and ActivitiesThe Handmaid's Tale and Speculative Fiction
Questions and ActivitiesThe Handmaid's Tale and Protest Literature
Questions and ActivitiesMaking a protest: Ten political novels to challenge your views
The Handmaid's Tale and Erotic Fiction
Footnote 8The Handmaid's Tale and Satire
Footnote 9 Questions and Activities- Gulliver's Travels
- Candide
- Satire and humour (British Library archive temporarily unavailable)
9 nightmarish things in 'The Handmaid's Tale' inspired by history
Thematic Notes and Activities
Government, Protest and Rebellion; Civil Rights
Questions and ActivitiesFaith and religion
Questions and Activities Further Reading9 nightmarish things in 'The Handmaid's Tale' inspired by history
Environment
Questions and ActivitiesCritical Bibliography
Online articles
- https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/east-germany/
- https://followmyvote.com/theocracy/
- https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/conservative-resurgence-1980s-and-1990s
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/20/handmaids-tale-margaret-atwood
- https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/22/living/the-seventies-feminism-womens-lib/index.html
- https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall
- https://www.insider.com/handmaids-tale-based-on-real-world-origins-history-events-2019-8
- https://www.bl.uk/sisterhood/articles/activism-and-the-womens-liberation-movement (British Library archive temporarily unavailable)