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A 6 page paper that analyzes Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four in regards to how the totalitarian states in each novel maintain power. The wrier argues that in each book, this is done largely through surveillance and control of sexuality. No additional sources cited.
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states, the populace was "purged" unwanted citizens; both states employed concentration camps, and both states employed a network of spies, informants, and secret police to maintain control. The system of
terrorism used to support a totalitarian state in each case was virtually identical. Likewise, George Orwells vision of a dystopian future in 1984 is very similar to the one envisioned
by Margaret Atwood in The Handmaids Tale. Although certainly different in plot, characterization and the details of their imagined futures, the process of control in each of the totalitarian
states described by these authors is very similar. In each novel, the totalitarian state is very much concerned with controlling sexuality. In Orwells novel, this theme is related
to his male protagonist, Winston Smith. Orwell wrote 1984 directly after World War II. Therefore, he was influenced by the conflict that had just been concluded against fascism and
the ongoing one against communism. Orwell felt that a constant state of virtual warfare could be used as a rationalization to strip away individual freedoms, and also that a cold
war situation could become institutionalized. Likewise, Atwood saw the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment for women and the rise of the Christian fundamentalist right in the 1980s, and feared
that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards to the position of women in society, particularly if fertility became an
issue. This referential topicality to their particular eras exists because both Atwood and Orwell envisioned the future based on what was going on in their present. In this way,
both books are intended to be seen as a prophetic "warning, that is meant to convey to the reader that if, as a society, we keep doing "A," it will
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