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The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about the subjugation of women in a futuristic society has received renewed interest recently, thanks to both current events and a hit TV adaptation. With the help of this SparkNotes guide, students and other readers will be able to make the most of this renowned book—which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Booker Prize—and better understand its complex themes.
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Making the reading experience fun!
When a paper is due, and exams loom, here is the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying and paper writing.
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about the subjugation of women in a futuristic society has received renewed interest recently, thanks to both current events and a hit TV adaptation. With the help of this SparkNotes guide, students and other readers will be able to make the most of this renowned book—which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Booker Prize—and better understand its complex themes.
Includes :
An A+ Essay—an actual literary essay written about the Spark-ed book—to show students how a paper should be written.
16 pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: a glossary of literary terms
Step-by-step tutoring on how to write a literary essay
A feature on how not to plagiarize
96 pages, Paperback
Published July 15, 2002
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August 20, 2019
Bought this book, because I wanted to know if I had a good apprehension of A Handmaid's Tale. The summaries of the chapters and the analysis were quite clear to me. My conclusion is that I have understood Margaret Atwood's novel in the right way.
June 13, 2025
Second read, now I understand why the last part of the novel matters.
The first time I read this novel I did not quite understand why we needed that last part with Pieixoto, now I do. And while the reader is hopeful that Offred escapes, possibly, the world is not a better place and has not fully learned much about women (or humanity, suffering, empathy) after the fall of Gilead.
This is the main thing I was able to open my eyes to with this Sparknotes Guide.
The first time I read this novel I did not quite understand why we needed that last part with Pieixoto, now I do. And while the reader is hopeful that Offred escapes, possibly, the world is not a better place and has not fully learned much about women (or humanity, suffering, empathy) after the fall of Gilead.
This is the main thing I was able to open my eyes to with this Sparknotes Guide.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews