Atwood and Gary Ross’ 2012 film ‘The Hunger Games’ are dystopian texts that reflect the genre of dystopian literature and the context in which they were composed. The conventional themes through which they do this are uniformity, technology and removal from present time as well as how these concepts are manipulated to create new meanings. In Atwood’s 1986 novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ the theme of uniformity, conventional to dystopian literature arises from the consideration of America’s fundamentalist
classification of the dystopian genre. Intro: Brief background about dystopia genre Short stories discussed- “ Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn and “Jordon’s Waterhammer” by Joe Mastroianni Brief summary of the two short stories Essay covers setting, plot development and character development. It analyses the dystopian genre Both short stories retrieved from “Brave New worlds” by John Joseph Adams. (Dystopian shot story collection). Setting Most stories set in the dystopian genre follow a similar
Dystopian Research Essay: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood In the words of Erika Gottlieb "With control of the past comes domination of the future." A dystopia reflects and discusses major tendencies in contemporary society. The Handmaid 's Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. The novel follows its protagonist Offred as she lives in a society focused on physical and spiritual oppression of the female identity. Within The Handmaid 's Tale it is evident that through the
Representation of Different Social and Cultural Forces in The Handmaid's Tale by Atweeon and Hard Times by Dickens “Masses of labourers, organised like soldiers, are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker and above all by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself”, Karl Marx in his Manifesto of the Communist Party 1848 here highlights the state portrayed through Charles Dickens’s ‘Hard Times’. Margaret Atwood highlights the similarity with her book