For this essay, your essay will focus on The Handmaids Tale.
Write about any of the following:
1. Ill keep the knowledge of this name like something hidden, some treasure Ill come back to
dig up, one day. Discuss the significance of names and naming in The Handmaids Tale.
2. Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you
now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. Discuss the authors treatment of the
dangers of passivity in The Handmaids Tale.
3. The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains. Discuss the power of language in The Handmaids Tale.
4. To tell the story is to survive. How well is this statement borne out in The Handmaids Tale.
5. Discuss Atwoods depiction of structures of oppression in the public and private life.
6. Discuss the ways in which Atwood treats sexuality and fertility.