HANDMAIDS TAIL

ASPECTS

settings

characters

author’s purpose

intended audiences

themes

visual language features (camera specific)

narrative structure

Introduction

TEXAS

S (summary): summarise all points

A (authors purpose): does this agree or disagree with the authors purpose

X (explain): explain how this proves your thesis

E (evidence): quotes + secondary sources

T (topic sentence): purpose of paragraph

  • 1) philosophical idea: introduce and write about the elements of the main idea (e.g. discrimination in society) + why you think these wider ideas are important (relate to society/human connection/wider literature
  • 2) thesis: In one/two sentences, clearly state the idea you’re going to prove (In my essay, I’m going to prove that...)
  • 3) evidence: introduce the three main points that help prove your thesis

The Handmaids Tale written by Margaret Atwood utilises and is an example of the statement "setting...", which is used throughout the text to help convey how this dystopian totalitarian society, full of absolute control, manipulation, and abuse, is obtained and how this kind of society and treatment is not so unfamiliar to the human race and not so radical or out of reach as one might think. Atwood shows how setting has an immense impact on individuals and how can impact the reader and convey the. Through this essay I am going to show how "settings ..." through evidence found by critically analysing the text The Handmaids Tale.

focus level 3 essay

  • presenting an argument
  • evidence from the text (quotes)
  • secondary sources (Atwood)

qoutes

secondary resources

"it can't happen here", could not be depended on; anything could happen anywhere given the circumstances

I would not put any event into the book that hadn't already happen nor any technology that did not already exist

experienced the wariness, feeling of being spied on, silences, changes of subjects, oblique ways people exchange information - which all had an impact on my writing