Atwood's Vision Of A Totalitarian Future World

Despite the difference in context, the concerns/anxieties represented in Atwood’s vision of a totalitarian future world: THT, include the loss of social/personal freedom such that women must adhere to puritanical values or the idea of mankind at its peak, an illusion of ‘perfection’. Discriminative society was also explored through the protagonists struggle in the inferior position portrayed in society. These central ideas will be further examined in relation to novel THT by Margaret Atwood and film Gattaca by Andrew niccols.
In the society of THT Atwood demonstrated the notion of restraint in social/personal freedom: “A return to traditional values. Waste not want not.” The alliteration applied highlights their societal value; Gilead’s step