Margaret atwood Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

A crash course on The Handmaid's Tale, designed to guide you in understanding the novel and writing a literary essay on the set work. It provides an explanation on major and minor themes, symbols & characters, and direct quotes for each theme from the book. It also includes the structure of how to write a literary essay and a breakdown of a possible essay topic, to demonstrate how to analyse and understand a topic given in an exam. The resources linked give more essay topic examples, and helpful...

This document - the stuck-in-the-mud IEB English final cheat sheet was put together by 3 top-achieving English students. This serves as a fantastic guide and tool for the IEB English final EXAM and for general info. Covering new ideas and taking into account various aspect not traditionally covered by normal study guides like the idea of colonialism and the fact that The Tempest could not be an autobiography as Emma Smith from Oxford put it - "Writers in Shakespeares time did not produce autobio...

English Literature - works for all exam boards. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood In-depth Context Includes: • Reaganism: Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the Conservative religious right • The Moral Majority – what did this seek to push back against? (1960s and 1970s advances in what?) • The Equal Rights Amendment • Roe vs Wade • Phyllis Schlafly and the 1980s feminist backlash • Second wave feminism • Rachel Carson and ‘The Silent Spring’ 1962 • Pu...

Here’s a complete breakdown of the poem ‘The City Planners’ by Margaret Atwood from the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4). This resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

14 PAGES OF A* GRADE 'THE HANDMAIDS TALE' CHARACTER PROFILES - AQA ENGLISH LITERATURE B ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROTEST - This document includes 5 character profiles for the main characters in 'The Handmaids Tale' (Offred, Serena Joy, The Commander, Aunt Lydia and Moira.) These character profiles are everything I learned about these characters which helped me to achieve an A* in my English Literature A-Level. Each document was written and used by me throughout my A-Levels, whereby I...

A* NOTES OF HISTORICAL PARALLELS IN THE HANDMAIDS TALE - This document contains descriptions of the historical parallels in 'The Handmaids Tale' and these ideas can be incorporated into an A-Level English Literature essay in order to include context and obtain A03 marks. Margaret Atwood herself has previously stated: 'I put nothing into The Handmaids Tale that had not already been done' - this document provides an insight into where she got her ideas from and the context in which 'The Handm...

A* marked practice essay for Unit-2, prose for the Pearson Edexcel English Literature A-level.

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 with examples of questions and paragraphs. Grade 12 IEB English Home Language paper 2: The Handmaid's Tale notes

Lecture notes of the course 'Literature 5A: American Literature, 1917 to the present', week 1 to week 13. Literature: Norton Anthology of American Literature, 9th/10th ed. volumes D and E Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale Toni Morrison - Beloved Sandra Cisneros - The House On Mango Street Art Spiegelman - Maus I + II: A Survivor’s Tale Alex Gansa (Netflix) - H...

The document provides 50 impactful quotes from The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, that are easy and quick to learn. Each quote has been explained briefly and includes who said the quote as well as the chapter it is found in. Each quote also has been highlighted to fall under a key theme. Please note that majority of quotes can overlap with multiple other themes. Good luck and happy studying :)

The Handmaids Tale - In-depth Notes, Language Analysis AO2, Context AO3, Quotes and Themes AO1