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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

About 652 pages (195,511 words) in 60 products

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Author Biography

Name: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Birth Date: 1939
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist, poet, cultural activist

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Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
9683 words, approx. 32.3 pages
One of Canada's most public literary personalities, Margaret Atwood has made her reputation as much as by being versatile as by being controversial. As a poet she has to date produced ten volumes of verse, and since her early university days, she has pub...
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Biography of Margaret Atwood
6447 words, approx. 21.5 pages
The author of over sixty books, Margaret Atwood holds a unique position in contemporary Canadian literature. "Atwood is arguably the most recognizable writer in the country," noted John Bemrose in Maclean's. Likewise, Ann Marie Lipinski, writing in the C...
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Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
5060 words, approx. 16.9 pages
Margaret Atwood is arguably the most prominent contemporary Canadian writer. Best known for her novels, Atwood is also admired for her accomplishments as a poet, critic, essayist, and short-story writer, and she has contributed as well to children's fict...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Handmaid's Tale Summary
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Margaret Atwood worked as a cashier, waitress, market research writer and film script writer before publishing her own poetry in 1961. The publication of The Edible Woman in...
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The Handmaid’s Tale Information
5,832 words, approx. 19 pages
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. The novel, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts,[1] explores themes of women in subjugation, and the various means by which they...


News and Journals
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The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Tales of the Tales.
05/22/2001: 1,747 words, approx. 6 pages
An oral history of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, which marks its 25th anniversary with this month's debut of the Further Tales of the City miniseries Further Tales of the City--the third miniseries based on Armistead Maupin's Tales novels--begins its four-week...
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Washington Monthly
The handmaid's tale.
04/01/1986: 737 words, approx. 3 pages
The Handmaid's Tale. Margaret Atwood. Houghton Mifflin, $16.95. Are gains in women's rights cumulative or cyclical? Much as one wants to believe in a slow, steady, dependable progression, the evidence makes it hard to be too confident. Women, after all, were doing...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Coral Ann Howells
8,686 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Howells discusses the presentation of female self-identity, memory, sensual experience, and Offred's resistance to patriarchal authority in The Handmaid's Tale.
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Critical Essay by Lois Feuer
6,522 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Feuer discusses ways in which Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale both partakes of and extends the dystopian genre, focusing on Atwood's questioning of certainty and truths in the novel.
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Critical Essay by Hilde Staels
6,277 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Staels examines modes of resistance and creative self-expression in the language and poetic imagery of Offred's narrative in The Handmaid's Tale. According to Staels, “In a society that censors aesthetic speech, Offred's poetic discourse reactivates the lost potential of language and the conditions for the production of meaning.”
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
What Analysis of the Female Role Does Atwood Offer in "The Handmaid's Tale?"
2,746 words, approx. 9 pages
Essay shows the analysis of the female role offered by Margaret Atwood "The Handmaid's Tale."
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Handmaid's Tale: Compare and Contrast Novel with Film
2,065 words, approx. 7 pages
Describes the similarities and differences between the Margaret Atwood novel The Handmaid's Tale and the movie made in 1990.
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Essay Grade: 98%
Escape and Variety
1,897 words, approx. 6 pages
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale highlights the human need for variety, freedom and respect among a dystopian society.
 


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