Compare And Contrast The Handmaids Tale

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In The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood, Offred was taken from her husband and child, brainwashed, and then forced into a new house where her sole purpose is to be a walking uterus. In a Brave New World by Aldus Huxley, people are made in a laboratory, no one cares about family, and everyone is high on soma. These two books are both different, but are also very similar. The main thing they have in common is that they are a dystopian society, the government controls everyone, and nobody has the freedom to do/live the way they want. However, why is it that so many authors write books like this? Where the world is controlled by terrible dictatorships, only the people higher up benefit, and the normal every day citizen is screwed? I believe that …show more content…

People everywhere were starving, begging for work, and loosing their homes. It is not a shocker that a book about people living “the good life”, high on happy pills all the time, and not having a care in the world was written. The people wanted to be happy, and when a book about everyone being happy came out, it excelled. This new society was suppose to be a utopia, where everyone was happy, but once you’ve read it, you’ll know that is not the case. The world these people are living in is not good, because people are walking around in a haze. It’s the kind of book that makes you happy about what you’ve got. Both of these books do have merit. In The Handmaids Tale, the women were basically taken back a couple hundred years, where all they did was have and raise children. The book takes what really happened to women and made it more extreme. In a Brave New World, people were sad, so this book shows what would happen if the government took “being happy” to the extremes. However, I do not believe that these particular situations are realistic. At least not in this day and age. People revolt against every little thing, countries get involved in other countries business so often that there is no way either of these could get very far. The only part that I believe is semi-realistic is the babies being made in tubs thing, that’s pretty plausible. Nonetheless, in conclusion, I believe that these books are made just for leisure time activities. They are too drastic to be possible, but are fun to read since they send a shiver down our spines when something crazy

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