A detailed reading journal of The Handmaids Tale made by myself.
This journal looks at each chapter of the book individually and focuses on the summary, key events, quotes, structural devices and key themes.
This looks at a detailed analysis of Duffy’s poems: The Diet, Beautiful, The Map Woman and The Woman Who Shopped.
Focuses on key themes such as insecurity, discrimination, belonging and identity, oppression.
Revision for AQA Paper 2b English Literature revision:
Including AO3, AO4, AO5
Revision focuses on:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Handmaids Tale
Feminine Gospels
How do writers explore enduring love?
Essay that focuses on the texts:
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare
Remember by Rossetti
Perspectives of:
The American Dream
Marxist view
Context of 1920’s
Examine the view that ‘The Handmaids Tale’ is a novel about the exploitation of women.
Essay plan that will help students to structure a thorough essay and fulfilling the criteria.
Criteria Revision for AS-A-Level Students
This unit aims to focus on the importance of context, typicality and critical views (A03, A04, A05).
It explores the texts; The Handmaids Tale, Feminine Gospels and Feminine Gospels to understand the concept behind the creation of these texts.
Links made to other texts and very helpful analysis for students in AS/A-Level to understand the writer’s intention behind the texts.
A detailed plan for ‘The significance of truth in the Handmaids Tale’, relating to key quotations, context, typicality and critical reviews.
Criteria met:
A01
A02
A03
A04
A05
A critical review made by myself, which focuses on the Handmaids Tale.
This review focuses on the way I perceieve how the women have been treated in this dystopian novel.
Given by views, I truly believe this book should be read and taken into consideration of the possible consequences which can happen.