Dystopian Visions: A Comparative Analysis of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
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https://doi.org/10.24113/ijohmn.v11i1.297Keywords:
Dystopian, Comparative, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's TaleAbstract
This study aims to investigate the dystopian subjects and visions introduced in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale, looking at the social, political, and mechanical components that shape the universes in every novel. The research investigates how the two writers study contemporary society by imagining future universes and investigating the fundamental apprehensions to control, opportunity, and character. The study utilizes a comparative scholarly examination, utilizing close readings of both Brave New World and The Handmaid’s Tale. A thematic analysis structure will be applied to distinguish key tragic components, such as government control, mechanical strength, and the concealment of individual privileges. Secondary sources, remembering scholarly analysis and hypothetical points of view for tragic fiction, will enhance the investigation, giving a more extensive setting for deciphering the works. Primer discoveries propose that while the two books present dystopian prospects set apart by extremist control, Brave New World stresses innovative control and industrialism as devices of mistreatment. However, The Handmaid's Tale centers around man-centric control and the oppression of women. The study uncovers that while Huxley and Atwood imagine various components of control innovation in Exciting Modern Lifestyle and man-centric philosophy in The Handmaid's Tale, the two books join on human independence under danger. Huxley's scrutinization focuses on the deficiency of uniqueness through an innovatively progressed, delight-driven society, while Atwood's novel highlights the severe force of sexism and strict doctrine. The comparative analysis uncovers that these works keep on reverberating with current readers as wake-up calls about the delicacy of human opportunity despite tyranny and foundational control.
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