Structure

Question 1

Genre

Answer 1

Utopia or dystopia?
Socially didactic
Made dystopia feminist
Features - hierarchy, autocracy, erasure of individuality

Question 2

Internal and external story

Answer 2

external - talks about everyday monotony
ordinary experience of living becomes more disturbing
Internal - in the night sections, Offred reveals her thoughts and emotions

Question 3

Night sections

Answer 3

history is pieced together by flashbacks

broken narrative - sections blur (memory and reality)

Question 4

Storytelling as an act of resistance

Answer 4

autobiographical narrative challenging authority
becomes like a political statement
her words are like an artefact

Question 5

Survival narrative

Answer 5

entrapped by role and by patriarchy in the book (quotes and historical notes)
Storytelling becomes a substitute for conversation with others