“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to the government” (Jiddu Krishnamurti) This quote by the public speaker, Jiddu Krishnamurti, is often reflected in the novels Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. The novels both deal with the recurring theme that the government is willing to remove humanity for an efficient, conflict-free society. We see this in both government's use of conditioning the society, their prohibition of personal relationships, and their use of control.
In both novels, the society has been conditioned to accept the government’s ideology. In Brave New World, the government, the World State, controls every stage of each person’s …show more content…
At the Red Center they are taught Gilead’s ideology to prepare becoming Handmaids. They are taught that women should not have jobs or own property, that they must dress modestly and not show skin, to not be vain, and that their most important function is to bear children. It is harder for the women to accept these beliefs because they have lived in a very different society. Offered and many other women are forced into these Red Centers and reject these ideas. Although Offred remembers and misses her previous life that she took for granted, she finds herself agreeing with some of the beliefs she has been forced upon. Offred says “My nakedness is strange to me already. My body seems outdated. Did I really wear bathing suits, at the beach? I did, without thought, among men, without caring that my legs, my arms, my thighs and back were on display, could be seen. Shameful, immodest.” (Atwood, 78). By saying so, she shows how her beliefs have been influenced by the government of Gilead.
The use of conditioning by both these government’s betrays a person’s right to individuality and expression, showing how the government’s feel it is admissible to suppress the societies for
In both novels, the society has been conditioned to accept the government’s ideology. In Brave New World, the government, the World State, controls every stage of each person’s …show more content…
At the Red Center they are taught Gilead’s ideology to prepare becoming Handmaids. They are taught that women should not have jobs or own property, that they must dress modestly and not show skin, to not be vain, and that their most important function is to bear children. It is harder for the women to accept these beliefs because they have lived in a very different society. Offered and many other women are forced into these Red Centers and reject these ideas. Although Offred remembers and misses her previous life that she took for granted, she finds herself agreeing with some of the beliefs she has been forced upon. Offred says “My nakedness is strange to me already. My body seems outdated. Did I really wear bathing suits, at the beach? I did, without thought, among men, without caring that my legs, my arms, my thighs and back were on display, could be seen. Shameful, immodest.” (Atwood, 78). By saying so, she shows how her beliefs have been influenced by the government of Gilead.
The use of conditioning by both these government’s betrays a person’s right to individuality and expression, showing how the government’s feel it is admissible to suppress the societies for