Introduction
Achieving the idealistic society only happens when three necessities are made. These three necessities are the fundamentals to establishing the idealistic society. These fundamentals being that one becomes knowledgeable, trusting, and loyal to all that pertains to the ruler and the ruler’s laws. When one accepts knowledge as true, this person gains trust towards the one speaking truth. Gained trust creates a bond of devotion between the one speaking the truth and the one believing. Throughout A Handmaid’s Tale the protagonist, Offred, was taken from her home during a civil war between those rebelling against the government and the government themselves. Those rebelling created a whole new society, referred to as Gilead, where the …show more content…
A person who was brought up learning history after the historical information was changed feels no need to question or doubt information, even if the information proves untrustworthy. Winston Smith also comes to the realization that “the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting,” meaning whatever false information the Party created becomes the undeniable truth (Orwell 30). The narrator of The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred, suggests that the citizens know not that all information contains all truth: “It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out” (Atwood 134). Even if a person has a brilliant memory of experiences, that person only has their interpretation of what had happened within that experience. An individual’s experiences are conveyed and told based on these interpretations that person made regarding these experiences. These interpretations may or may not be true depending on what a person knows or remembers. However, the people also know better than to question the data from the commander, due to the prior knowledge and lessons learned throughout
Achieving the idealistic society only happens when three necessities are made. These three necessities are the fundamentals to establishing the idealistic society. These fundamentals being that one becomes knowledgeable, trusting, and loyal to all that pertains to the ruler and the ruler’s laws. When one accepts knowledge as true, this person gains trust towards the one speaking truth. Gained trust creates a bond of devotion between the one speaking the truth and the one believing. Throughout A Handmaid’s Tale the protagonist, Offred, was taken from her home during a civil war between those rebelling against the government and the government themselves. Those rebelling created a whole new society, referred to as Gilead, where the …show more content…
A person who was brought up learning history after the historical information was changed feels no need to question or doubt information, even if the information proves untrustworthy. Winston Smith also comes to the realization that “the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting,” meaning whatever false information the Party created becomes the undeniable truth (Orwell 30). The narrator of The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred, suggests that the citizens know not that all information contains all truth: “It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out” (Atwood 134). Even if a person has a brilliant memory of experiences, that person only has their interpretation of what had happened within that experience. An individual’s experiences are conveyed and told based on these interpretations that person made regarding these experiences. These interpretations may or may not be true depending on what a person knows or remembers. However, the people also know better than to question the data from the commander, due to the prior knowledge and lessons learned throughout