Over the years both books The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984 have been attacked for many different reasons. Let’s start with how they dehumanize the citizens by ripping them of their individuality and taking away their ability to learn things on their own so that the citizens won’t overpower the government. They are caged in their own city and watched like animals and also treated like so, there’s no equality between not only women and men but also the upper and lower class.
Not only are the books the worst kind of dystopian societies you could think of but the books are looked at today as something that could possibly happen in the near future. A very frequently asked question, could this happen in today’s society? The horror used in 1984 is the eradication of the self and the destruction of the ability to ever actually see the real world. There is little relativism in Orwell’s 1984, however, this story shows the horrors of a world where the people have fewer words to use everyday and whose thinking is mislead by beliefs.
The dystopian story described in George Orwell’s novel “1984” is starting to feel too familiar, right? A world in which Big Brother is always watching your every move and telescreens can eavesdrop into your home, there’s no such thing as privacy. A world of constant war, with pent up fear and hate against foreigners. A world in which the government insists that reality is not “something objective, external, existing in its own right” — but rather, “whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.”
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Orwell created a distressing picture of a dystopia named Oceania, where the government defines its own reality and where propaganda disperse the lives of people distracted by tabloids and movies filled with sex to care even so little about politics or history. Books and news articles are rewritten by the Ministry of Truth and facts and dates grow to become blurry or altered , the past is described as a overtaken time that has been given way to the Party’s efforts to make Oceania great again.
To Big Brother and the Party, Orwell wrote, “the very existence of external reality was indicated denied by their philosophy.” dismissing the facts, Big Brother is godlike and the Party is trustworthy. the novel’s hero Winston Smith sees it, the Party “told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears,” and he makes a promise early in the book, to defend what he knows is “the obvious” and “the true” “The solid world exists, its laws do not change.
Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall toward the earth’s center.”he reminds himself of what freedom is and what it shall be “is the freedom to say that two plus two make four,” even though the Party will make him agree that “TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE”. unlike the way mr.spicer tried to intend that Mr. Trump’s inauguration crowd was “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration,” despite the actual facts and photographs to the contrary. Those in power have always tried to twist around the truth and “control the narrative.”
Margaret Atwood’s very known dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale explores many different issues in relations to gender, religious politics and the consequences of self satisfaction and how power can be handled unfairly. A totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America, because of low reproduction rates, Handmaids are assigned to bear children for a family who by holds lots of power or influence couples that have trouble conceiving their own child. They are also forced to follow dress code.
Handmaids were to wear red, Martha’s wore green and the wives of the Commanders wore blue, this showed their status in Gilead. Margaret Atwood created her dystopian world using only historical early occurrence , getting at America’s Puritan roots to create Gilead, then putting together other parts from the past like the Lebensborn Nazi party program created specifically to encourage a high birth rate among Aryan women.
Also book burnings, the religious iconography seen in the enforced dress codes, state surveillance in China and East Germany. Just like in George Orwell 1984 book. Some have even noticed the similarities in the book that could possibly happen in today’s world, happening as it has so soon after the election of President Donald Trump.
America has never needed to take such a hard look at itself until now and think about the hypocritical, misogynist prurience that seems to drive so many of its political figures, political figures they’ve voted for? Seemingly, even since the The handmaid’s tale show began airing in America, women have attended marches and protests dressed in the red robes and white bonnet s , as see in Atwood’s handmaids. The translation that we have for today’s audience should be praised because in a strange way we are blessed.
In conclusion, The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984 are attacked or suppressed by authorities because today’s society is slowly starting to reflect the societies of The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. Many people have started to point out how our society is starting to resemble the society of The Handmaid’s Tale. The women in The Handmaid’s Tale have no rights or control over their bodies. Although women now do have rights we don’t have as much freedom over our bodies as we should, and we are slowly losing our rights. Many fear that we will eventually reach the extremes of the Republic of Gilead.
Many people have also pointed out that our society also resembles the society of 1984. Many people believe that the government watches us the same way Big Brother watches the citizens of Oceania. People also believe we are slowly starting to live in 1984.
Authorities in today’s society are attacking 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale because they are afraid that people are started to realize we are started to live in those societies.
