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| Biography: Margaret Atwood | Modernists & Postmodernists | Article: Metafiction or the Self-Conscious Narrative |
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| Article: 'Handmaid' relevant today | Article: Important Quotes | Article: Feminist Utopia/Dystopia |
- Essay: Freedom Reconsidered: Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" [PDF]SOURCE: Fisher, J. & Silber, E. (2003), "Women In Literature: Reading through the Lens of gender," Greenwood Press, London, pp 175-177.
Videos
The Handmaid's Tale - Plot Summary
This video runs you through the plot of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, and begins to unravel some of its key ideas necessary to studying it.
SOURCE: Atomi (2019), posted on Youtube, [7:50 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/R_mntxYZ2Lw
The Handmaid's Tale, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 403
John looks at some of the themes in this classic dystopian novel, many of which are kind of a downer. The world of Gilead that Atwood created looks at a lot of the issues that we deal with today, and the very human impulse to return to an imagined golden era, thereby solving all of our modern world's problems.
SOURCE: Crash Course Literature (2017), posted on Youtube, [12:40 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/PubyDwbNqYA
The Handmaid's Tale, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 404
John looks at Atwood's desire to tell a story from a female point of view, and what exactly it means to tell a story in that way, and if in fact there is an inherently male or female way to tell a story. We'll also look at why Atwood presents the story's final chapter from the perspective of a male scholar.
SOURCE: Crash Course Literature (2017), posted on YouTube, [12:12 mins], URL: https://youtu.be/zj05QxebnC4
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