Sophie's Exploration Report

I chose to explore informal sources on a book I read recently, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Because this novel was made into a critically acclaimed series on Hulu, it has a wide online and informal audience who analyze both the book and the adaptation. This allowed me to find a lot of different sources and encouraged me to watch the series, but it also introduced the difficulty of finding discussions about the book rather than always the series.

My first informal search was just on Google Images, where most results were photos of the main character, Offred, in the Hulu series. But through clicking through these images, I found an interesting article about The Handmaid's Tale statement on climate change. Usually, analysis of the novel focuses on gender roles and reproductive rights, so I thought the new perspective that this article took was very interesting.

Finally, through searching syllabi that include The Handmaid's Tale, I unsurprisingly found the novel on a lot of syllabi for English and Literature classes, but also discovered it on syllabi for Women's Studies and Sociology classes, which added an interesting dimension to my understanding.

Sources:
https://www.bustle.com/p/the-handmaids-tale-is-trying-to-warn-you-about-climate-change-18667636
https://www.hulu.com/series/the-handmaids-tale-565d8976-9d26-4e63-866c-40f8a137ce5f
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aedu+syllabus+the+handmaid%27s+tale&oq=site%3Aedu+syllabus+the+handmaid%27s+tale&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.7234j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8