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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares the dystopian societies pictured by Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. While both novels are compelling and realistically frightening in their predictions, current events have shown Bradbury's vision to be the better dystopian novel, as there are now even more indications of the U.S. government rationalizing fascism than there were at the time of the novel's publication. No additional sources cited.
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seemingly innocuous elements might lead to societal disaster. Two such dystopian novels are Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale and Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451. While both novels are compelling and realistically
frightening in their predictions, current events have shown Bradburys vision to be the better dystopian novel, as there are now even more indications of the U.S. government rationalizing fascism than
there were at the time of the novels publication. Atwoods novel envisions a society founded on a Christian fundamentalist doctrine in which female sexuality is strictly controlled. Due to
environmental degradation, pollution and nuclear accidents, the people of this society, Gilead, suffer from infertility. Women, who are sexual slaves, are referred to as "handmaids" and their purpose in society
is to produce children for the elite to raise. These women are denied any identity of their own. Women are no longer taught how to read, and if the novels
protagonist, Offred (a name that refers to the name of her commander), fails to produce a child, she will be targeted for extermination as someone "useless" to the state. In
this society, variations of Marxist slogans are attributed to the Apostle Paul. For example, the Handmaids are taught to recite "from each according to her ability, to each according to
his needs" (Atwood 8). Atwood obviously feared the emerging strength of the religious far-right and saw in its rejection of rights for women the seeds of a dystopian world in
which the rights gained by women would be forfeited, with this policy rationalized as necessary in order to perpetuate the human race. The religious far-right remains a factor in
American politics and society, and isolated extremist groups have exhibited radical and sexist control over the lives of female adherents; however, the actions rationalized by the federal government in
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