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Oxford Literature Companions: The Handmaid's Tale
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Book Description
Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role, genre, context, language, themes, structure and critical views, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work with the text. Each book also includes a
comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Table of Contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Plot and Structure
- Plot
- Structure
- Context
- Biography of Margaret Atwood
- Politics
- Feminism
- New England geography and colonial America
- Culture
- History/Herstory
- Genre
- Dystopian
- Science fiction
- Feminist literature
- Postmodern
- Satire
- Romance novels
- First-person narrative
- Characterization and Roles
- Main characters
- Minor characters
- Language
- Similes
- Metaphors
- Nature imagery
- Bodies and the senses
- Colour coding
- Puns and wordplay
- Allusions
- Names
- Syntax
- Themes
- Gender
- Power and politics
- Surveillance
- Place and enclosures
- Marriage and motherhood
- Love and desire
- Doubling
- Critical Views
- Marxist and political criticism
- Feminist criticism
- Psychological literary theory
- Reader response criticism
- Structuralist criticism
- Skills and Practice
- Exam skills
- Understanding the question
- Planning your answer
- Writing your answer
- Sample questions
- Sample answers
- Glossary
- Back Cover
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