Reading Time: 10 minutes If you’re studying this text for A-Level, you can pretty much write about the significance of names for any … More Identity and belonging: the importance of names in The Handmaid’s Tale
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Is Offred too passive to be satisfactory? (part 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Read part one of this blog here Thirty years of feminism later In the television series, Elisabeth Moss’s Offred is … More Is Offred too passive to be satisfactory? (part 2)
Is Offred too passive to be satisfactory? (part 1)
Reading Time: 5 minutes The recent television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has been striking in its success. Critically acclaimed, it’s benefited from Margaret … More Is Offred too passive to be satisfactory? (part 1)
Appropriation of Language in dystopian fiction
Reading Time: 8 minutes As an English teacher – and student, still, I think! – I love novels that engage with the idea of … More Appropriation of Language in dystopian fiction
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Study Guide
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The symbolism of clothing and colour in The Handmaid’s Tale
Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the texts I’m teaching this coming year is Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, as part of the dystopian topic … More The symbolism of clothing and colour in The Handmaid’s Tale