Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale

Provide an objective summary of “Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale”. Your summary should be approximately 400 words in length.

As with Assignment 2, if you go over 1000 words, you’ve likely rambled. Under 400 words, you’ve likely been too brief.

Your summary must include the important events of the selection: how the story (in this issue) starts, what happens in-between, and how it ends.

Note any important phrases (dialogue that might be worth analyzing later). In your summary, incorporate at least two direct quotes from the text. No bibliographic citations or references are necessary for this assignment.

Your summary should be objective (see the Week 3 module notes). This is not an analysis (see “Additional Guidance” below).

Read the following article, “The Epilogue of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Changes Everything You Thought You Knew About the Book”: https://electricliterature.com/the-epilogue-of-the-handmaids-tale-changes-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-the-book/

In your own words, what is the value of the Historical Notes? What do they add to The Handmaid’s Tale?

Your response should be approximately 200 words in length.