The Handmaid's Tale by CSS English Faculty https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830 Planning for Paper 2 questions en-us 2019-03-06 05:23:24 UTC 2019-03-27 06:37:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Plot hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338241685 2019-03-06 05:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338241685 Non-linear narrative Structure of plot hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338241751 2019-03-06 05:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338241751 Fragmented narrative structure/ disjointed/past tense=before/present tense=now hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338241807 Memory blurring reality. Present and past only (2 women represent double vision) ]]> 2019-03-06 05:25:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338241807 Characterisation hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242113 2019-03-06 05:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242113 WHY? hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242498 Author's Intentions]]> 2019-03-06 05:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242498 Setting hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242576 2019-03-06 05:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242576 Totalitarian state hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242637 / Theocratic: fundamentally Christian/ Patriarchal]]> 2019-03-06 05:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242637 Language control hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242762 Linguistic Imperialism]]> 2019-03-06 05:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242762 WHAT? hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242895 2019-03-06 05:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242895 HOW? hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242967 2019-03-06 05:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338242967 Context hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338243149 2019-03-06 05:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338243149 Identity hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338243263 2019-03-06 05:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338243263 New Vs Old hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338243302 2019-03-06 05:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338243302 QUOTATIONS hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338243456 2019-03-06 05:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338243456 Symbolism https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247438 2019-03-06 06:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247438 Motif https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247514 2019-03-06 06:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247514 Criticise the patriarchy https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247637 2019-03-06 06:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247637 Social constraints thorwenu https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247675 Clothing & expectations of behaviour denoting hierarchy, denial of liter]]> 2019-03-06 06:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247675 Patriarchy https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247688 Male control of reproductive rights]]> 2019-03-06 06:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247688 Political Influence https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247727 2019-03-06 06:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247727 Female Oppression https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247829 2019-03-06 06:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247829 Dystopia https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247845 A corrupted theocracy ruled by distorted Christian values]]> 2019-03-06 06:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247845 Role of women in society https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247869 eg: to breed

]]> 2019-03-06 06:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247869 Examples: hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247875 Clothing (red - blood), wings (Ironic symbol of freedom), language, ]]> 2019-03-06 06:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247875 Colour imagery thorwenu https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247889 visual appearance to define social roles]]> 2019-03-06 06:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247889 Social hierarchy https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247906 Women ranked by their ability to reproduce (Wives, Handmaids, Marthas)]]> 2019-03-06 06:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247906 Language is power https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247996 2019-03-06 06:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338247996 Link THMT to the real word for the reader to relate thorwenu https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248027 2019-03-06 06:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248027 Physical control over movement hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248076 Then I see her..I have to look hard, again to make sure it's her. I do this in pulses, quick flickers of the eyes so no-one will notice (C37).]]> 2019-03-06 06:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248076 Loss of identity https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248164 Women are dehumanised and judged based on their ability to reproduce (Names 'Offred'=Of Fred)]]> 2019-03-06 06:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248164 Analepsis https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248188 Atwood engages with the voice of the past]]> 2019-03-06 06:11:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248188 Tension between classes https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248197 Wives jealous of Handmaids, they have something that makes them more worthy/more of a woman]]> 2019-03-06 06:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248197 Characters defined by their body's function thorwenu https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248276 E.g. Women/fertility]]> 2019-03-06 06:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248276 Ongoing debates between Pro-choice vs Pro-life https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248309 2019-03-06 06:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248309 https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248442 Is abortion about giving women their rights over reproduction, or taking human lives for selfish reasons?]]> 2019-03-06 06:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248442 Possibility https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248452 of this type of society/state in the future]]> 2019-03-06 06:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248452 Hypocracy https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248479 2019-03-06 06:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248479 Contrast between Gilead and Pre-Gilead thorwenu https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248516 2019-03-06 06:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248516 Real historical events to show that the book is a possible reality https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248623 2019-03-06 06:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248623 Colour and physcial appearance define social role thorwenu https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248686 "Everything except for the wings around my face is red" (Pg. 20)]]> 2019-03-06 06:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248686 https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248786 While in the past there was plenty of freedom to, there is also a freedom from which needs to be balanced with freedom to.]]> 2019-03-06 06:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248786 "Abortion is wrong" https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248804 2019-03-06 06:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248804 https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248959 “When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”]]> 2019-03-06 06:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248959 https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248998 "There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from."]]> 2019-03-06 06:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338248998 Structure of chapters into "Night" and "Day" times thorwenu https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338249140 2019-03-06 06:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338249140 Political climate s019314 https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338668729 Atwood wrote the novel in the 1980s shortly after the election of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The political climate of that time was unstable, and Atwood reflects the consequences of a politically disjointed society.]]> 2019-03-07 00:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338668729 https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338669500 “A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”]]> 2019-03-07 00:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338669500 Oppression s019314 https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338669637 “We learned to whisper almost without sound” (p.14)

“Thinking can hurt your chances” (p. 17 )

“I am like a child here, there are some things I must not be told” (p.63)

“Blessed are the meek” (p.74)

“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard. ” (p. 247 )
]]> 2019-03-07 00:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338669637 Copulation hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338669667 Maybe I'm crazy and this is come new kind of therapy. I wish it were true; then I could get better and this would go away. (C16)]]> 2019-03-07 00:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338669667 https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338669948 “The Republic of Gilead, said Aunt Lydia, knows no bounds. Gilead is within you.”]]> 2019-03-07 00:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338669948 'To be a man, watched by women'... hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338672428 'Still it must be hell to be a man like that. 
It must be just fine. 
It must be hell. 
It  must be very silent'. (C15) ]]> 2019-03-07 01:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338672428 Natural imagery contrasts with technical polluted Gilead hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338695775 represents feminine subversion in a male world]]> 2019-03-07 02:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338695775 Anachronism hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338697549 The official language seeks to reject and repress the previous language and replace it with biblical discourse.]]> 2019-03-07 03:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338697549 Reb hannah_standring https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338701178 2019-03-07 03:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/338701178 Contrast s019314 https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/345559222 Contrast between 'before' and 'after' due to the non-linear narrative. 
e.g. Offred's recollection of wearing high heels when she sees the Japanese tourists]]> 2019-03-27 06:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/345559222 Significance of colour https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/345559616 Black and white colours mentioned several times (book of sexual organs)
Attention to colouring of things around her/in her environment]]> 2019-03-27 06:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_standring/kx7m1izsd830/wish/345559616