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Title: 'The Handmaid's Tale' - Critics Flashcards
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 2 (comparative and contextual study in Dystopian literature) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Oppression, Individual vs State, Gender & Relationships, Rebellion, Religion, Political Text?, Language, Moral Fable, Dehumanisation and Ideological control. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick! Combine with my 'The Handmaid's Tale' context flashcards for easy, comprehensive revision.
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 2 (comparative and contextual study in Dystopian literature) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Oppression, Individual vs State, Gender & Relationships, Rebellion, Religion, Political Text?, Language, Moral Fable, Dehumanisation and Ideological control. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick! Combine with my 'The Handmaid's Tale' context flashcards for easy, comprehensive revision.
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Oppression
“manages to domesticate totalitarianism,
because she shows it peopled by such ordinary
figures” - Stimpson
“state becomes even more frightening, because
its monstrosity seems normal, absurdly
normal” - Stimpson
“dystopian fusion of gentleness with
militarism” - Snodgrass
“Everyone ruled by Gilead suffers the
deprivation of having no choice” - Malak
“dystopias dramatise the eternal conflict
between individual choice and social necessity”
- Stimpson
“(Offred's flashbacks offer) glimpses of a life,
though not ideal
...
But the 'plot' of the novel
...
It is against the
use of religion as a front for tyranny” - Atwood
“(the supposedly Christian regime) miserably
lacks spirituality and benevolence” - Malak
“On all levels of this sterile, soulless theocracy,
the dynamics of God play virtually no part”,
“spiritual wasteland” - Snodgrass
“Orwellian dystopia dominated by the horrors
of theocracy and puritanism” - Rigney
“power-hungry elite who use their own brand
of 'Bible-based' religion as an excuse for the
suppression of
...
But history is more than a story
we tell ourselves” - Bouson
Language
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ critics
Moral Fable
“In Gilead, men have 'the word' and women are
rendered silent” - Bouson
“(words are) signposts to the reality she is
determined to hold on to” - Bouson
“(language is) just as repressive an instrument
as the army and the police” - Howells
“women from all classes of society
...
indicate the success of the programme” Snodgrass
“The novel's mimetic impulse then aims at
wresting an imperfect present from a
horror-ridden future” - Malak
“cocooning herself
...
Women were
once subject to hideous abuse by men, but now
they are free from all that” - Ehrenreich
“Radical feminists can be repressive too” Stimpson
“ominous convergence between some of the
ideas of the antifeminist right and those of the
cultural feminist militants” - Malak
“women then become possessed articles, mere
appendages to those men who exercise sexual
mastery over them” - Malak
“Gilead has performed a dire organ swap,
hearts for uteruses” - Snodgrass
“reduction to mere functions, to mute,
replaceable objects” - Bouson
“(Historical notes) the supposed 'objectivity' of
the scholarly enterprise
...
have been totally
objectified, rendered into objects by the state” Davidson
Ideological Control
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ critics
Dehumanisation
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ critics
Title: 'The Handmaid's Tale' - Critics Flashcards
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 2 (comparative and contextual study in Dystopian literature) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Oppression, Individual vs State, Gender & Relationships, Rebellion, Religion, Political Text?, Language, Moral Fable, Dehumanisation and Ideological control. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick! Combine with my 'The Handmaid's Tale' context flashcards for easy, comprehensive revision.
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 2 (comparative and contextual study in Dystopian literature) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Oppression, Individual vs State, Gender & Relationships, Rebellion, Religion, Political Text?, Language, Moral Fable, Dehumanisation and Ideological control. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick! Combine with my 'The Handmaid's Tale' context flashcards for easy, comprehensive revision.