Dear Year 13. Many apologies, but I will be out tomorrow. You may spend the time working on your coursework, and planning your comparison if you have aleady decided on your paired texts. If thisis the case, I expect to see evidence of this tomorrow.
If you have not used the time for this, I would like you to please tackle an essay questIon on The Handmaid's Tale. Plan the essay and try to write the first part of it, at least, in the hour available to you.
Consider one of the following quesitons:
1. Is Offred a heroine? Discuss
2. Compare the ending of this novel to that of 1984. How are they different?
How deos the end ing affect the message of the novel?
3. 'Dystopian novels are often used to signal injustice in society at the time of writing'. Is this true
of The Handmaid's Tale or is the novel more subtle than such a reading might suggest?
4. Is the reader meant to take the final section of The Handmaid's Tale seriously or not? What difference does it make to the narrative? Explain.
Good luck--and see you on Friday to discuss this.
