essay writing

character essay:

• first section = characterisation

  • presentation

  • what are they like as a character?

  • ‘bread and butter’

• second section = what do they represent?

  • real-life counterparts

  • eg 3rd wave feminism translated into a character

• third section

  • broken down through eg post-structuralist lens

revision:

• revise n remember first appearances of characters, for navigation

AO3:

• “Atwood draws on [a culture of female anti-feminism in 1980s America, embodied by…]”

• “In this way, Atwood’s design for Gilead is a reflection of….”

AO4:

• “Atwood draws upon ideas in Huxley’s Brave New World…”

• “The slogan of once having ‘freedom to’ but now having ‘freedom from’ is perhaps a response to the Savage’s claims to the ‘right to be unhappy’ from Huxley’s Brave New World…”

• “Atwood draws upon ____, in order to construct her characterisation of ____”