Compare and contrast how religion is presented in relation to women ‘ A Thousand Splendid Suns’ and ‘The Handmaids Tale’

“Women are trapped within a biblical Orthodoxy which Denies them Selfhood”- In the light of this statement, compare and contrast the ways in which Atwood and Hosseini present Religion as having a restrictive force on female identity in ‘The Handmaids Tale’ and ‘A thousand Splendid Suns’Revision of coursework needs to include deeper literary andlysis and more fitting to the EDUQAS exam board marking structure (page 11 component 4 Prose study)-https://www.wjec.co.uk/media/ednhizi0/eduqas-a-level-eng-lit-assessment-grids.pdf–The coursework should be revised to structure as follows:

1. A breif summary of main arguement with a view to expand on it in the later topic paragrahs-The main arguement of the work is that although both novels faith is manipulated to repress the agency of the women in them, the nature of the religion in each respective novel is fundamentaly differet and has varying affects on the women characters in each story-for example, the religion in Atwoods work is a top down dirigisme whilst Hosseini’s novel has faith intertwined with resistance-the main takeaway from the essay should be that in ‘A Thousand Splensid suns’ female idenntity exists through religion in a voluntary manner not present in Atwoods novel, despite religion being manipulated in both to keep women’s identity suppressed
2. The draft as is includes relevant literary critics and some supporting contextual information-in this revision I require deeper literary analysis of both novels including direct quotes from both novels highlighting writers use of literary technique and its effect on how it shapes meaning in each paragraph
3. Revised Relevant contextual analysis in each paragraph-here are some examples for Atwood-https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jya7j9ebavwZY9gji7PBT-HNbYtOIsb4p9o0tQAL7iY/edit?tab=t.0
4. Here is an examplar of what the coursework should best look like using a different novel comparison and question (Script A)-https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/A%20Level/English%20Literature/2015/teaching-and-learning-materials/9ET0-04-coursework-exemplars.pdf-If the coursework resembles this by the end of the revision writer will be used for other work
5. Main point of revision is to include more literary analysis with highlighted literary techniques