ENG 1102 Subjugation & Dominance in Margaret Atwood The Handmaid Tale Discussion

I’m working on a Writing project and need an explanation to help me learn.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of an argumentative essay is to argue a certain topic and utilize/synthesize your secondary sources to support that topic. In doing so, your concise analysis will enhance the reader’s understanding of the topic under consideration

• A good analysis provides a valuable point of view, a way of seeing, a way of interpreting some element of the primary source (the novel) that otherwise may appear random or unexplainable. Your job is to make the implicit explicit.
• Comparing and contrasting is a form of synthesis. You compare different criteria in order to make a larger point about the subject under consideration. Thus, comparing and contrasting is more than laying out similarities and differences in a paper side-by-side, but is about pointing out those points of comparison and contrast and then analyzing their significance

• You will locate TWO secondary sources. Both must come from the library’s journal database. This is the ONLY location to be used—no websites, or content from anywhere else is acceptable and will result in loss of points.
• Essay (1500 words/5 pages minimum)FORMAT:Typed and double-spaced in MLA format.
• TOPIC: Margaret Atwood’s TheHandmaid’s Tale is a work of speculative fiction that depicts a dystopiansociety in which a totalitarian, Christian theocracy has overthrown the UnitedStates government. The result is Gilead, which is a woman’s world, even thoughit is governed and policed by men. Women arestrictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money, and assigned to variousclasses based on household functions.