Weblinks and videos for use with 9125 – The Handmaid's Tale: Activity Pack for A Level
Pre-reading
- Margaret Atwood: we are double-plus unfree
- Writers Unite! The Return of the Protest Novel
- Margaret Atwood and Elisabeth Moss on the urgency of The Handmaid’s Tale
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- Margaret Atwood on What The Handmaid’s Tale Means in the Age of Trump
During Reading
Chapters 8–12: Waiting Room
Chapters 14–17: Household
Chapters 25–29: Soul Scrolls
Chapters 31–39: Jezebel’s
Chapters 41–45: Salvaging
Chapter 46: Night
Historical Notes
After Reading
Characters and Relationships
Genre
Themes and Attitudes
The Writer’s Use of Language
Form and Structure
Contexts
- Margaret Atwood: Feminism is not about believing women are always right
- Hate crimes, honour killings and FGM: how The Handmaid's Tale captures our age of fear
Critical Reception
- What Critics Said about 'The Handmaid's Tale' Back in the 1980s
- Offred’s Complicity and the Dystopian Tradition in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
- Review: Choice of Evils
- Why is The Handmaid's Tale claimed as feminist, when it's deeply ambivalent about the movement?
- Women disunited : Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale as a critique of feminism
- ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: A White Feminist’s Dystopia
- Offred’s Complicity and the Dystopian Tradition in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
- Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid Tale” and the Dystopian Tradition