Emotional Restriction is a struggle that can be seen in Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale and Lowry’s The Giver this resulting in the lack of individualism, this can also be seen in the 1930’s when Hitler was ruling Germany.
With a society that is restricted from emotions there is always a possibility of no uniqueness with in the society. This can be seen in the book The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, “I remember that yearning, for something that was always about to happen and was always about to happen and was never the same as the hands that were on us there..” (Atwood, 3) This is showing that the Handmaid that is narrating the story, Offred, can remember the feelings that made her happy in her life before. It can also be seen in the book The Giver by Louis Lowry, “That’s all,” she replied, returning the bottle to the clipboard. “But you mustn’t forget. I’ll remind you for the first weeks, but then you must do it on your own. If you forget, the Stirrings will come back. The dreams of the Stirrings will come back. Sometimes the dosage must be adjusted.” (Lowry, 38) In the book The Giver they are given a secret …show more content…
In The Giver their government would always repeat what they are doing wrong to prevent it from happening in the future. “Everyone had known, he remembered with humiliation, that the announcement ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO MALE ELEVENS THAT OBJECTS ARE NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE RECREATION AREA AND THAT SNACKS ARE TO BE EATEN, NOT HOARDED had been specifically directed at him, the day last month that he had taken an apple home.” (Lowry, 23) Having the announcement happen during that time they would be able prevent in the future. A quote from Hitler’s propaganda minister Josef Goebbles “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe
With a society that is restricted from emotions there is always a possibility of no uniqueness with in the society. This can be seen in the book The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, “I remember that yearning, for something that was always about to happen and was always about to happen and was never the same as the hands that were on us there..” (Atwood, 3) This is showing that the Handmaid that is narrating the story, Offred, can remember the feelings that made her happy in her life before. It can also be seen in the book The Giver by Louis Lowry, “That’s all,” she replied, returning the bottle to the clipboard. “But you mustn’t forget. I’ll remind you for the first weeks, but then you must do it on your own. If you forget, the Stirrings will come back. The dreams of the Stirrings will come back. Sometimes the dosage must be adjusted.” (Lowry, 38) In the book The Giver they are given a secret …show more content…
In The Giver their government would always repeat what they are doing wrong to prevent it from happening in the future. “Everyone had known, he remembered with humiliation, that the announcement ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO MALE ELEVENS THAT OBJECTS ARE NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE RECREATION AREA AND THAT SNACKS ARE TO BE EATEN, NOT HOARDED had been specifically directed at him, the day last month that he had taken an apple home.” (Lowry, 23) Having the announcement happen during that time they would be able prevent in the future. A quote from Hitler’s propaganda minister Josef Goebbles “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe