For the past week, I read and analyzed a groundbreaking novel for my ISP. That novel is “The Handmaid’s Tale,” an unprecedented dystopian fiction by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It truly resonated with me in some of the events that took place. This reading experience will certainly be an unforgettable one, since I learned more about myself as an individual. Without a doubt, I would definitely suggest it to a friend to read mostly for its art and essence.
I made some connections between the events in my own experience and events in the novel while reading. One example would be how the Gileadean government targeted citizens depending on their religion, disability, and sexual orientation just like Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany was a period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when the country was following a dictatorship government run by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. In Gilead, children born with disabilities are identified as “Unbabies.” Moreover, The Wall often has people hanging because of their different beliefs or perhaps gender treason such as for being gay. These ideas were inspired by the past events, and Hitler’s concentration camps are widely known for discrimination and segregation. …show more content…
Both novels have dystopian societies within the science-fiction genre and are held in the future. They explore the erratic ways in which society can abuse authority in order to gain control. This forceful and dehumanizing subjugation is used to instill susceptibility and fear among the society as a method of control. The writers use the protagonists, David and Offred, to explore the response to oppression, and both its physical and psychological effects. Also, they both depict a world in which man-made environmental disasters, that is radiation spills, have spoiled the natural world and led to many
I made some connections between the events in my own experience and events in the novel while reading. One example would be how the Gileadean government targeted citizens depending on their religion, disability, and sexual orientation just like Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany was a period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when the country was following a dictatorship government run by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. In Gilead, children born with disabilities are identified as “Unbabies.” Moreover, The Wall often has people hanging because of their different beliefs or perhaps gender treason such as for being gay. These ideas were inspired by the past events, and Hitler’s concentration camps are widely known for discrimination and segregation. …show more content…
Both novels have dystopian societies within the science-fiction genre and are held in the future. They explore the erratic ways in which society can abuse authority in order to gain control. This forceful and dehumanizing subjugation is used to instill susceptibility and fear among the society as a method of control. The writers use the protagonists, David and Offred, to explore the response to oppression, and both its physical and psychological effects. Also, they both depict a world in which man-made environmental disasters, that is radiation spills, have spoiled the natural world and led to many