Dystopian Countries: A Comparative Analysis

304 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

Recommended: Dystopia

The desire for both societies to conceive babies is both of their ultimate goal. The dystopian societies were formed because of the lack of people caused by the convulsions and war of the government. The founder of the Women’s Country, Martha Eveswater realized that is was “the men who made the weapons and men who were the diplomats and men who made speeches about national pride and defense” (Tepper, 301). She wanted to breed out the “eagerness to fight” (Tepper, 302) with the inspiration from people who “selected the bulls that didn’t fight […] bulls that were cooperative and gentle” (Tepper, 203). She did exactly what those people did with bulls, and started using servitors, men who were gentle and sympathetic to have children with the women.

Show More
Related

  • Analysis Of Eliza Gamble's Descent Of Man

    1845 Words  | 4 Pages

    While Darwin left the qualities associated with maternity as a given, Gamble describes the results of natural selection in detail. By juxtaposing the “extreme egoism” (86) of males and the “altruism” (86) of females with “the unequal struggle for liberty and justice” (87), Gamble alters the connotations of the qualities of each sex. No longer are men envisioned as physically and mentally superior hunters that provided for families, but instead as tyrannical oppressors in the classic struggle for liberty. Gamble furthers her explanation of male oppression through sexual selection. With this, Gamble turns the connotation of male superiority on its head, suggesting that this supremacy is in fact a societal artifact, not a biological

    Read More

  • Comparing The Handmaid's Tale And The Road

    1255 Words  | 3 Pages

    The woman walked with a waddling gait and as she approached he could see that she was pregnant” (McCarthy 173). My belief is furthered when we take into account that the catamites are kept for sexual intercourse as the descriptor used implies. Ergo, if the women being kept are not needed for sexual intercourse, their only purpose must be for procreation akin to the handmaids in The Handmaid’s Tale.

    Read More

  • The Chrysalids - Role of Women

    742 Words  | 2 Pages

    The novel 'The Chrysalids' explains the journey of a young boy, David Strorm, who has telepathic abilities despite living in an anti-mutant society Waknuk. He begins to question and arises doubts as to whether the laws set in Waknuk could be wrong. There are several female characters involved in David's life and through these women we could see that the women in the novel act as bystanders, protectors and are used just for the purpose of 'pure' reproducton.

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast The Veldt And Dystopian Literature

    1294 Words  | 3 Pages

    Imagine a chaotic society of people who are so entangled by ignorance and inequity that they do not realize it; this would be called a dystopian society. Dystopian societies are very popular among many fictional stories. In fact, in the stories Fahrenheit 451 and “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, dystopian societies are represented. In many of these stories, the people in the fictional societies are violence-loving, irrational people who always seem to do what people of the U.S. society would consider "immoral." These stories are not a representation of how the U.S. society is now, but how it could be in the future. Unlike the society of Fahrenheit 451, the U.S. allows people

    Read More

  • sfsdf

    1194 Words  | 3 Pages

    .... Since Wives do not have the ability to have a baby, they ask Handmaids to sleep with their husbands once a month to bear a baby. Their husbands cannot see Handmaids except for every month’s Ceremony. Because the husband cannot kiss and touch Handmaids when they have sex, the husbands go to night clubs to dally with Jezebels. In this society, women each have a function and become the victims of patriarchal ruling. Once we lapse in dealing with the gender relationship, what will the situation be for the entire human society? In The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood puts this worry into her feminist dystopia, a real nightmare. Although the sufferings everyone undertakes in the novel will not occur in the real world, the novel conceives a unique, horrible social panorama, exaggerating and magnifying the gender tension in the real world, containing the criticism of reality.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Hanna Rosin's The End Of Men

    1151 Words  | 3 Pages

    In Hanna Rosin’s article, ‘‘the end of men”, the author begins by stating that women are taking over today’s society, while the position of men have become a thought of the past. The author recognizes the negativity of having girls as firstborns. In the article, the author states, “Many wives who failed to produce male heirs were abused and treated as domestic servants; while some families prayed to spirits to kill off girl children” (Rosin). In this article, the author gives light to how the preference of having males has decimated from the minds of people and how it has been erased from society. And, goes as far as insinuating that women have overtaken the place of men in today’s society and are seen as equal. However, I disagree because I believe that men just want to keep women down and it is demonstrated through discrimination at the workplace, depriving education, and violence towards women.

    Read More

  • Morality Of Birth Control Rhetorical Analysis

    1492 Words  | 3 Pages

    She then talks about the morality of the women who would partake and how women’s rights have been innovating up until this point and implies that this would be the next great step for the advancement of women’s rights. She presents the idea that primitive forms of birth control are no longer ethical in today’s society as their methods would violate various mores that have been set by present day society by saying that that “primitive men have achieved the same results by infanticide, exposure of infants, abandonment of children, and abortion.” She uses examples of seemingly barbaric primitive methods to exemplify that in present times there is a need for a more civilized and humane method of family planning. By using this extreme example, Sanger effectively appeals to ethos to hopefully persuade the audience by showing how the old methods would themselves be contradictory to the set of morals the opposers are trying so hard to hold on to.

    Read More

  • Types of Abortion

    1926 Words  | 4 Pages

    Illegitimacy was just one of the reasons on why abortion was carried out and according to Macfarlane (2002), who believed illegitimacy was a burden, and the child was seen as “The bastard, like the prostitute, thief and beggar…a living symbol of social irregularity”. Women feared of being degraded and losing their social status within society, and they would willingly kill their own child to forget the existence of illegitimate children, so it was no surprise woman would go through with abortion so they would still be accepted within society. Extreme poverty was also a reason as many parents and woman could barely feed themselves, much less another child (Sauer 1978). Knight (1977) also argued that in the 19th century was when depression hit so both working class and middle class could not afford children.

    Read More

  • A Dystopian Society in George Orwell´s 1984

    1485 Words  | 3 Pages

    Dystopian novels are written to reflect the fears a population has about its government and they are successful because they capture that fright and display what can happen if it is ignored. George Orwell wrote 1984 with this fear of government in mind and used it to portray his opinion of the current government discretely. Along with fear, dystopian novels have many other elements that make them characteristic of their genre. The dystopian society in Orwell’s novel became an achievement because he utilized a large devastated city, a shattered family system, life in fear, a theme of oppression, and a lone hero.

    Read More

  • Women and the Workforce

    3921 Words  | 8 Pages

    to the conclusion at one point that the whole thing was hopeless because it is a biological fact women have babies and that is always a career breaker. I end this paper rather disappointed that now, as it was centuries ago,are allowing their lives to be run by male views and stereotypes. The world is moving forward but unless women stop allowing

    Read More

  • The Handmaids Tale Oppression Analysis

    1001 Words  | 3 Pages

    Alison Martin defines the right to motherhood as “a matter of women’s right to choose whether or not they wish to become mothers in the face of civil recognition that women’s bodies make them potentially mothers” (32). Women in Gilead did not have this right. Rather, their ability to reproduce is their sole means of survival and their bodies are at the disposal of the men.

    Read More

  • Utopia As A Dystopian Society

    1762 Words  | 4 Pages

    Human sacrifice killings is a horrific but devastatingly true reality for some that come too close to the jaws of the Matamoros cult. People usually think of a utopia as an amusement park or just an amazing dream. The dictionary version is often defined as “any visionary system of political or social perfection” (“Utopia”). A dystopia is quite the opposite though. Think of your worst nightmare and that is exactly what a dystopia is. The professional definition is “a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding” (“Dystopia”). As it goes in 1984, the whole book is based on a dystopian society. Citizens have horrible lives which leave them dehumanized by the central government. They are also being under

    Read More

  • The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

    775 Words  | 2 Pages

    In The Handmaids Tale, Gilead the dystopian state is the reason for all of misery and misuse of power. In the book, the narrator Offred explains how Gilead came to be. Gilead was created because of low birth rates, the mass killing of the congress and the president, and pollution from radioactivity and toxic waste. From there, social classes were created to determine each role of people in the society. The Handmaids are used to make babies of the Commanders, while the Wives are underneath the Handmaid, and the action of sexual intercourse takes place. The Commanders are the men that are high in ranking of Gilead, and their Wives are considered to be sterile, and this is where the use of Handmaids come in. The narrator Offred is a Handmaid and she explains how she feels “erased” and how she is powerless and becomes suicidal. During pre-Gilead, the rights of women were abolished, and given to the closest family male member. This is where Offred feels powerless because her husband Luke wanted to make love that night the law was passed for women, but she refu...

    Read More

  • Persuasive Essay On Reproductive Rights

    1805 Words  | 4 Pages

    The Nineteenth Century and mid-Twentieth Century were two influential times in the women’s rights movements. The first movement for women’s rights focused on the principle of female emancipation and the second movement focused on the principle of women’s liberation. DIFF WORD FOR IDEA of reproductive rights and freedom stemmed from these principles. Author Ruth Dixon-Mueller defines in her book, Population Policy & Women’s Rights: Transforming Reproductive Choice, the three main topics of reproductive rights as“(1) the freedom to decide how many children to have and when (or whether) to have them; (2) the right to have the information and means to regulate one’s fertility; (3) the right to “control one’s own body.” (Dixon-Mueller, pg. 12) Patriarchal societies norms deny women the right to control their own body and it has often been viewed as the property to man, whether their husband or their father. Major co...

    Read More

  • Gender Inequality Essay

    846 Words  | 2 Pages

    American society has come a long way in identifying and defending women’s human rights and humanity. However, women will always be essentially different than men because of their ability to convey with children. We are reminded of this by current political debates concerning abortion and contraception, which some have called a “war on women”. The transformation of gender relations since the beginning of the 20th century is one of the most rapid change in human history. Men had legal powers over the lives of their children and wives. Wife beating was never strictly legal in the Unites States. The ruling of men over women had emerged by the end of the 18th century. The movement for the right

    Read More

More about Dystopian Countries: A Comparative Analysis

Open Document