Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
* This essay assignment requires at least one secondary source found through the University Library database as taught in the Online Library Instruction Program.
You will examine your chosen text in the context of one of the following general topic areas; you will want to focus in and be specific about a key aspect of the literary text you are analyzing, and remember to avoid merely summarizing it. These areas are general so that you are free to choose the specific element of the text that interests you to write about. Make sure your essay analyzes the work of literature in question and its context rather than using this text to generalize or talk about today.
· Literary text’s historical and cultural circumstances
· Literary text’s exploration of contemporary philosophical trend(s)
· Literary text’s critique of contemporary society
· Literary text’s critique of contemporary intellectual context
· Literary text’s political context and meaning
· Literary text’s religious context and meaning
